Just one extra hour of sleep a day appears to lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease, researchers said yesterday.
Artery-calcification rates ranged from 27 percent among those sleeping less than five hours a night to 6 percent among those sleeping more than seven hours, says the University of Chicago Medical School study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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