The impact is acting like greater if you already have risk factors for heart disease or stroke.

Newer research suggests a connection as wellbut not just on the day after the time change.

Of course, daylight savings time isnt the only time you should be paying attention to your sleep habits.

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The Bottom Line

Regularly getting quality sleep is important for many health factors.

Heres your wake-up call: Daylight saving time may impact your heart health.

A., & Johnson, K. G. (2024).

Daylight saving time and mortalityproceed with caution.Nature Communications,15(1).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45837-4