Healthy Heart Habits · Heart
The heart's night shift and the alarm system that shouldn't stay on.
While you're deep asleep, your heart rate and blood pressure drop — a nightly rest for your whole circulatory system. Most adults need about 7 to 9 hours; regularly getting much less is linked in research with higher blood pressure and higher heart risk.
There's more: the heart's night shift and the alarm system that shouldn't stay on. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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