Lung illness is worsened by poor sleep than by smoking.
It is common knowledge that sleep has a significant impact on one's quality of life. Long-term advantages come from getting a decent night's sleep, which is defined as seven hours or more.
As one might anticipate, inadequate or fragmented sleep has the opposite effect. According to a recent study by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), getting inadequate sleep may worsen lung disease progression even more than smoking.
the monitoring of "flare-ups"
1,647 participants in the study had all been diagnosed with COPD. Researchers followed the occurrence of "flare-ups," or temporary worsenings of symptoms, in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over three years during this time and linked it to self-reported information on sleep quality.
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