Sleep Disorders are Widespread in U.S.
Wakeful nights may force your blood pressure to shoot sky high, as per the study conducted by the Researchers at Columbia University in New York. As per the study, if you’re middle age and sleep five or fewer hours a night, you may be increasing your risk of higher blood pressure and increasing heart rate.
Wakeful nights may force your blood pressure to shoot sky high, as per the study conducted by the Researchers at Columbia University in New York. As per the study, if you’re middle age and sleep five or fewer hours a night, you may be increasing your risk of higher blood pressure and increasing heart rate. The data for the study was collected from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Study of 4,810 people ages 32 to 86 who did not have high blood pressure at baseline. The study was conducted after monitoring the subjects for a 10 year period. It was conducted by a team of researchers led by James E. Gangwisch, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in the psychiatric epidemiology training (PET) program at Columbia University’s Mailman School.
The study resulted out with the higher risk of hypertension for those who slept less than six hours a night. It revealed that 24 percent of people ages 32 to 59 who slept for five or fewer hours a night developed hypertension after controlling for factors such as obesity, diabetes, physical activity, salt and alcohol consumption, smoking, depression, age, education, gender, and ethnicity as compared to 12 percent of those who got seven or eight hours of sleep.
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