AN AFTERNOON nap may seem the perfect answer to the steamy heat of the
tropics. But a study of Costa Rican snoozers found that a daily siesta increased
their risk of heart attack by 50 per cent compared with people who rarely or
never dozed in the afternoon.
Hannia Campos from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Xinia
Siles from the University of Costa Rica in San Jose studied 505 people who
survived heart attacks and 522 controls matched for age, gender and where they
lived. They found that the people who took a long siesta every…
