Sleep in to Pass on Cardiac Arrest Even More Critical During the Pandemic

What are you doing to ensure you and your team don’t add to the statistic? 

In addition to being sedentary while working remotely, over the top work and home stress, and the chance of eating less healthy there is a possibility of complications of COVID-19 even if you are asymptomatic.

On top of that, a recent study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the survival of those who experience out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. They attribute this to the fact that strangers are afraid to approach and apply CPR for fear of encountering a COVID positive victim.

What if there is one simple step you can take tonight to reduce your risk? What if it could feel unbelievably good too? 

 Are you

• getting 7-9 hours of sleep each night (12% lower risk)
• free of insomnia symptoms (17% lower risk)
• having no excessive daytime sleepiness (34% lower risk)?
• an early riser (8% lower risk)

Research published this week in the American Heart Association’s Journal Circulation from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA with 408,802 participants discovered adults with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42% lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk factors.

What if we all took the commute time we talk about saving since we are WFH and spent it in bed asleep?

If you could use help increasing your sleep health or that of your team, reach out to me at debbie@optimal-ep.com https://optimal-ep.com/

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050792