Weekend Sleep: How to Reduce Your Risk of Hyperuric Activity

Among postmenopausal women, increased levels of serum uric acid levels are linked to heart diseases, whereas good-quality sleep has proven health benefits.

In postmenopausal women, the risk of sleep deprivation is higher resulting in added health issues. A new study revealed that weekend catch-up sleep may help minimize the risk of hyperuricemia (elevated serum uric acid), stated study published in //Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) ().

What is Hyperuricemia?

Hyperuricemia is most often associated with gout, an increasingly common form of arthritis characterized by severe pain, redness, and tenderness in joints. Pain and inflammation occur when too much uric acid crystallizes and deposits in the joints. In addition, hyperuricemia is associated with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, and kidney and cardiovascular diseases.

The prevalence of hyperuricemia increases with age in all populations and especially in women after menopause. That’s because, according to previous studies, hyperuricemia is inversely related to estrogen levels.

Sleep on the Weekend Could Limit Your Risk of Hyperuric Activity

A suggested approach to lowering the risk of hyperuricemia is adequate sleep duration that unfortunately becomes more of a challenge during the postmenopausal phase. Sleep is known to be essential for many people’s immune response, cognition, performance, psychological state, and disease status. Several studies have shown that too little or too much sleep is related to poor health problems such as hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and even mortality.

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‘In postmenopausal women with sleep deprivation, weekend catch-up sleep of just 1 to 2 hours is associated with a reduced prevalence of hyperuricemia. ’

In this latest study involving nearly 1,900 participants, the researchers hypothesized that weekend catch-up sleep could be a solution to making up for lost sleep during the week and effectively lowering the risk of hyperuricemia in postmenopausal women, who often struggle to get sufficient sleep. This is the first known study to investigate the relation between weekend catch-up sleep and hyperuricemia in postmenopausal women.

Study results suggest that weekend catch-up sleep is linked with a lower prevalence of hyperuricemia in postmenopausal women with insufficient sleep. Further studies are required to identify the causal relationships between sleep recovery and hyperuricemia in postmenopausal women.

Reference:

Association between weekend catch-up sleep and hyperuricemia with insufficient sleep in postmenopausal Korean women - (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37192838/)

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