Lack of Sleep Triggers Hypertension

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:58 Written by putra Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:58

Rising blood pressure can be caused by many things. Heredity, unhealthy eating patterns, as well as environmental conditions are not conducive, can cause a person with hypertension aka high blood pressure.

Work is piled up, the streets affected by traffic congestion, as well as various other activities make you lose hours of sleep each day. In fact, lack of sleep is one reason a person has high blood pressure.

Recently, a natural health care study at the University of Chicago, the United States said that a lack of sleep can increase the risk of hypertension. In Britain, one of three people who have hypertension, potentially struct by a stroke and heart attack, as quoted from telegraph’s health care information.

The health information study involved 578 adults with age range 33 to 45 years. The researchers checked the blood pressure of participants. The researchers then monitored their sleeping patterns by using a sensor that is placed on each wrist of the participants in order to find patterns of activity and rest of them before re-checking blood pressure.

From the health care research proved, one percent of the objects of study sleep eight hours per day or more. The rest, to sleep with an average of six hours per day. The result states that a person who sleep less than six hours per day increases the risk of hypertension by 37 percent.

Dr. Christian Knutson of the Archives of Internal Medicine, said, “This study provides evidence that the relationship between duration and quality of sleep with high blood pressure levels are determined by the characteristics of a person’s sleep pattern.”

Basically hypertension rarely have obvious symptoms, only if their blood pressure tested, the results are consistently above 140 and 90. To lower one’s blood pressure, physical exercise and dietary salt can lower blood pressure.