Neue Studie legt nahe, dass Melatonin mit einer alarmierenden Zunahme von Herzinsuffizienz verbunden ist
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/melatonin-sleep-heart-failure-study-b2861025.html
Neue Studie legt nahe, dass Melatonin mit einer alarmierenden Zunahme von Herzinsuffizienz verbunden ist
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/melatonin-sleep-heart-failure-study-b2861025.html
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Or could it be poor sleep that cause people to take melatonin is also causing heart issues
That’s a very inconclusive study.
One of the problems with obstructive sleep apnea is that not only does it wake you multiple times per night, but it can take a long time to get back to sleep once awoken. I take melatonin (5mg per night) to help with this. Should I stop?
Important note at the bottom of the article. While the apparent link between heart failure is alarming, the limitations of the study mean that a direct link between melatonin usage and heart failure cannot yet be made.
I don’t like titles like this. They give the impression that the melatonin is what’s causing the heart failure. And not something like obesity which is linked to sleep issues and a desire for sleep medication like melatonin respectively.
The article I read a few days ago indicates that if you need to use melatonin to sleep often then you might have heart problems. The article I read didn’t say that melatonin was the cause.
This is not a causative study! There are obvious confounders that the paper itself identifies. Melatonin is not going to kill you.
I recently read another study that people who take insulin have issues. I also read a study that people who undergo chemotherapy have lower quality of life
Ironically, the meds they had me on for my heart is what caused me terrible insomnia, which caused me to seek melatonin (and be told by several doctors that I should just take melatonin). That led me to believe that sleep disturbances among heart patients on beta blockers are very common, thus them using sleep aids. So this is a flawed study imo.
This is a junk article written by someone who doesnt understand science. Get rid of this trash.
Guess Im cooked then boys. Its been real. I take those 20mg gummies almost every day.
I hate articles like these. Correlation doesn’t equal causation. It’s like saying 100% of people die before they reach the age of 125 if they drink water at least once in their lifetime.
Is there a link to the article?
The word “suggests” is doing heavy lifting here. I can suggest many things with no evidence one way or the other.
That’s not to say there may be a link, but the words “alarming” and “suggest” along with the disclaimer the bottom of the article lead me to believe this is more about social media enhancement than verifiable analysis of the data.
Me seeing the title: „Oh, good, it’ll give me the sleep I’ve been craving.:
Me reading the comments summarizing the article and everything wrong with it: „Welp..“
And you got a lot of uniformed parents drugging their little ones with melatonin “to get them to fall asleep.”
As a parent, what has worked in our house is a a schedule routine the kid can adjust to. Bedtime routine begins at “x” time. Brush & flush, read some books, lights off at “x.”
When its chaotic and never the same time, kids are going to sleep poorly. You literally have to teach them how to do it, not rely on melatonin to paper over it.
Anyone else tired of these clickbait titles that misrepresent the findings of the study? It would be nice if that was against the rules of this sub.
>“To understand the risks of taking the supplement, researchers reviewed five years of health records of over 130,000 adults with insomnia who had taken melatonin for at least a year and compared them with peers who also suffered from insomnia but had never taken melatonin.
>They found that patients who used melatonin for 12 months or more had about a 90 per cent higher chance of heart failure over five years compared to non-users.“
Damn well I guess I need to stop taking it
Maybe wait for the study to actually be peer-reviewed and published before putting out sensationalized clickbait.
Let me guess: stressed out people have trouble sleeping to they also happen to often use melatonin as a supplement to sleep better, in other words, clickbaity title purposefully treating correlation as if it was causality
Correlation does not mean causation. Also, selection bias is very important. Those at risk for insomnia are already increased risk for HF. They are also the patients likely to benefit from use of melatonin.
All I’m hearing is I get to sleep well AND die young. Win win!
Mods really need to implement a primary source requirement.
This seems to be referring to a conference presentation that isn’t peer reviewed or published elsewhere.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.152.suppl_3.4371606
I’m not saying it means the results are wrong. I am saying the level of coverage is inappropriate at this point as we don’t even have a paper to see the methods.
I have suspicions about the quality of controls and analysis but until a full publication is made – no way to address those.
have never understood why authors of studies that report descriptive associations take their findings to the press and speak as if their research should meaningfully inform layperson behavior
Ah, the classic attention grabbing headline, with only anecdotal connections between the two. Keep it classy Chicago.
Sleeping issues are also directly linked to heart problems
If people are taking melatonin then they’ve likely had severe insomnia and THAT is going to put pressure on your heart regardless of medication
I refuse to give any credence to this, melatonin has saved my life and is the only reason I can even get to sleep some nights. Also, what kind of melatonin use was being studied? If it’s people that have serious conditions, then that says nothing about people who take relatively small amounts of it nightly for normal sleep issues. But anyone reading the headline u it a going to assume that it does apply to that category of people, which is grotesquely irresponsible. I detest headlines like this that wave around inconclusive studies to say “x is dangerous actually”.