According to a new study, a greater risk of stroke has been identified in people who do not eat dinner at the same time each evening.
Lifestyle habits can influence our health. A new study, published in the journal Nutrients and conducted by Japanese researchers, has just established a link between the dinner schedule and the occurrence of certain types of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA). The results show that people who dined at irregular hours had an increased risk of death from hemorrhagic stroke.
Better to eat at the same time every night
At the start of the study, the researchers point out that “the data on the role of supper time in the development of cardiovascular disease are limited”. They recruited 28,625 men and 43,213 women aged 40 to 79 in good cardiovascular health to conduct a clinical trial studying the link between dinner hours and the risk of death from stroke.
To carry out their work, the researchers divided the panel of participants into three groups: one dining before 8 p.m., one following 8 p.m. and one at irregular hours. After 19 years of follow-up, researchers identified 4,706 deaths caused by cardiovascular disease. “We found that adopting an irregular dinner schedule versus eating dinner before 8:00 p.m. was associated with an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke mortality,” the authors state. However, the results do not show any significant links between dinner time and the risk of mortality for other types of stroke, cardiovascular pathologies or even coronary artery disease.
For your information, hemorrhagic stroke accounts for 15% of stroke cases, versus 85% for ischemic stroke. This type of stroke is usually caused by a ruptured aneurysm, which is when the artery in the brain breaks. Note, it can also be caused by bleeding disorders or hypertensive crises.
