If you frequently make sleep the background character in your schedule, going to bed after finishing late work or doomscrolling, you will soon start to notice the negative effects on your health. The real consequences are much more severe, endangering your heart, even if the short-term effects, such as foggy mornings and midday micro-sleeps, may seem manageable. Because sleep is more than simply a daily checkmark on your schedule, it's a necessary reset for your health, you can only begin to take it seriously by being well-informed about the risk factors.

Dr. Kayan Siodia, a cardiology consultant at Mumbai's P. D. Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, listed three main ways that inadequate sleep can have a direct impact on heart health, including irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, and even sleep apnea.

"Epidemiological studies consistently demonstrate that individuals who get less than six hours of uninterrupted sleep daily are far more likely to develop hypertension, regardless of their age or other circumstances," he stated. "Regularly missing sleep can silently endanger your heart."

Poor sleep impacts your health in the following ways:

1. Arrhythmia

• Chronic sleeplessness, insomnia, or disturbed sleep causes a neurohormonal unrest.
• This further causes the heartbeat to become irregular due to sleep deprivation, and this leads to arrhythmias (irregular heart rate).

2. Hypertension

• Hypertension, a disease closely related to sleep, finds its genesis not merely in salt or stress but also in sleeplessness.
• The body’s hormonal system, particularly cortisol and the adrenergic system, intricately controls both sleep and BP.
• When the body’s natural day-night rhythm is disrupted, sleep patterns become disturbed. This can lead to ongoing high blood pressure, which slowly damages other organs and affects the body’s overall metabolism.

3. Sleep apnea

• Lack of sleep also causes sleep apnea, also known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA.)
• This is characterised by spells of low oxygen due to muscle laxity in obese individuals, which subconsciously awakens the brain as the body struggles for oxygen.
• This has a detrimental effect on the neurohormonal balance, which causes a permanent increase in BP.

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