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Forget the Guilt: Sleeping Longer on Weekends May Protect Against High Blood Pressure

From Postimees · () Estonian

Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A new study links moderate weekend catch-up sleep with a significantly lower risk of hypertension.
  • The article says workweek stress and early mornings can leave the body exhausted.
  • It presents extra weekend sleep as a possible way to recover from stress rather than as laziness.

Do you feel guilty when you sleep a little longer on Saturday and Sunday? A new study suggests that the extra rest may be doing your heart a favor instead.

According to the research, moderately making up for lost sleep can significantly lower the risk of high blood pressure. The finding offers welcome news for people who use the weekend to recover from short nights during the working week.

Workweek stress and early mornings inevitably place a strain on the body, the article says. Those additional hours in bed may therefore represent the body’s way of recovering from that pressure.

The message is reassuring for anyone who worries that sleeping late signals laziness. In this account, weekend sleep serves a practical health purpose by helping restore the body and keeping one of the most common health problems, elevated blood pressure, at bay.

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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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