Chronic lack of sleep may negatively affect our immune cells, raising certain health risks: New study
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A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City indicates a chronic lack of sleep may affect a person's immune cells — and contribute to inflammation in the body.
"Another key observation [is that] that sleep reduces inflammation and, conversely, that sleep interruption increases inflammation." The group of participants then decreased their sleep time by 90 minutes each night for six weeks — and had their blood drawn and analyzed again. The heightened state of inflammation in the mice that had fragmented sleep did not reverse even after sleep recovery, McAlpine also told Fox News Digital. Amy McGorry is a contributing health reporter for Fox News Digital. Follow her on Twitter @amymcgorry.
"An increase of inflammation makes you susceptible to a whole bunch of problems, in particular cardiovascular diseases," co-lead investigator Cameron McAlpine, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) at Icahn Mount Sinai, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
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