Often eating when you about to sleep, turns out this can increase the risk of you getting heart attack while sleeping

News24xx.com -Eating heavy meals before bedtime not only causes fat, recent research links it with the risk of deadly heart disease. The research was carried out by scientists from Columbia University and presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association.

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They used data from 12,700 adults aged 18-76 years from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos. It was revealed, about 50 percent of participants fulfilled 30 percent of their daily calorie needs after 6 pm. This causes fasting blood sugar levels tend to be higher, as well as insulin levels, hormones to control blood sugar.

High fasting blood sugar levels can also be considered a sign of prediabetes, a condition that leads to diabetes. Confirmed with a 19 percent increased risk of experiencing prediabetes. Quoted from LiveScience, the same participants also experienced an increased risk of 23 percent for hypertension. One condition that is a risk factor for heart disease.

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