A lot of us enjoy a weekend lie-in, especially after a busy work week.
And new research has indicated hitting snooze on your Saturday and Sunday alarms can prove beneficial to your health – fending off high blood pressure and improving heart health.
Researchers at Korea University have discovered having an extra one hour and 27 minutes of sleep at the weekend can help maintain a healthy blood pressure – with sleeping this extra time lowering your chances of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension, by nine per cent.
The study, which assessed 41,000 adults over a seven-year-period, considered how much ‘catch-up’ sleep participants
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