A new study has suggested that sleeping in longer at the weekend could save your life.
Researchers have found that an extra two hours of sleep on rest days can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke by 63 percent.
The health benefits are especially evident for those who sleep less than six hours a night during the week.
Scientists at Nanjing Medical University in China followed 3,400 people to monitor how their sleep cycles affected their health.
They found that those who were sleep-deprived during the week but managed to get two hours more sleep at the weekend were two-thirds less likely to suffer heart attacks.
