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AN AFTERNOON nap may seem the perfect answer to the steamy heat of the
tropics. But a study of Costa Rican snoozers found that a daily siesta increased
their risk of heart attack by 50 per cent compared with people who rarely or
never dozed in the afternoon.

Hannia Campos from the Harvard School of Public 午夜福利1000集合 in Boston and Xinia
Siles from the University of Costa Rica in San Jose studied 505 people who
survived heart attacks and 522 controls matched for age, gender and where they
lived. They found that the people who took a long siesta every day鈥攐ver
one-and-a-half hours鈥攚ere 50 per cent more likely to suffer heart attacks
than those who napped only once a week or so, for less than an hour. The period
just after waking in the morning is known to be a high-risk time for heart
attacks. Researchers suspect that waking after a siesta presents a second
high-risk time during the day. 鈥淚t may act as a trigger,鈥� says Campos. But she
warns that regular siestas may simply indicate a lifestyle that is too
sedentary.