Lack of Sleep Trigger Hypertension

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:41 Written by Natural Health Team Wednesday, 26 August 2009 07:27

Blood pressure can be increased by many factors. Heredity, diet, and not conducive conditions environment can cause a person suffering from hypertension aka high blood pressure.

Works that piled up, the streets are jammed, and various other activities that can make you reduce the hours of sleep each day. Yet the lack of sleep can led a person to have high blood pressure.

Recently, a study at the University of Chicago, the United States, found that the lack of sleep can increase the risk of hypertension. Even in Britain, one of three people who have hypertension, have potentially to get stroke and heart attack, as quoted by the telegraph.

This research involved 578 adults with age range 33 to 45 years. The researchers checked the blood pressure of the object of study. The researchers then monitored sleep patterns using sensors placed on each study subject’s wrist in order to know their activities and rest before blood pressure is checked again. The study involved 578 adults with age range 33 to 45 years.

From the research proved, 1 percent of the objects of study sleep 8 hours per day or more. The rest, sleep with an average of 6 hours per day. The result states that a person who slept an hour less than 6 hours per day increases the risk of hypertension by 37 percent.

Dr. Kristen Knutson fromArchives of Internal Medicine said, “This study provides evidence that an association between sleep duration and sleep quality with high blood pressure level are determined by the characteristics of a person’s sleep pattern”.

Basically hypertension rarely have obvious symptoms, only if the blood pressure are being tested, the results will consistently above 140 and 90. To lower blood pressure, doing physical exercise and salt diet are proved can lower blood pressure.

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