Posted on 03/30/2023 8:42:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
New research shows the chances of higher blood pressure increases exponentially, particularly for overweight middle-aged men, with every hour of sleep they lose or change to their regular nighttime routine.
A new study is one of the first large-scale extended studies into the effect of variable sleep patterns on blood pressure.
The study involved a global sample covering the equivalent of more than 2 million nights of home sleep data measured from 12,287 adults—88% of them men and, on average, overweight (BMI; 28±6kg/m2)—in their own homes using portable under-mattress sensor monitoring technology and remote blood pressure assessment.
On average, each participant had 30 separate blood pressure recordings over the nine-month study timeframe.
The research team found a strong correlation between elevated hypertension and irregular sleep duration and timing—emphasizing the need for more awareness about the links between circadian control systems and health.
"Not only should we monitor the amount of sleep, but we should also keep our resting schedule as regular as possible," says Dr. Hannah Scott.
Regularly varying nightly bedtimes by more than about 30 minutes was associated with a 32% increase in hypertension risk. Higher nightly variability in other timing measures—such as mid-sleep time and wake-up time—were associated with greater hypertension risk.
Given a complex interplay between sleep history, sleep need and circadian influences, irregular sleep can lead to further disruption and even more variation in sleep patterns, researchers warn.
As well, inadequate sleep (less than six hours) and even too much sleep (long sleep of nine or more hours) were also associated with increased blood pressure, similar to other studies.
"However, this study also shows that night-to-night variation in sleep timing and duration can have a similar effect, even if people get the recommended 7-9 hours on average for adults aged 18-65 years," adds Dr. Bastien Lechat.
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>> Regularly varying nightly bedtimes by more than about 30 minutes was associated with a 32% increase in hypertension risk.
wow, but is the increase caused by the shift or the factors that led to it?
Seven to nine inches keeps her happy.
If you can go to bed and get up every day within a 30 minute window, you are a drone who has the most structured boring life.
People who travel, doctors, truck drivers, cops and those in many other professions can not.
Those who travel for a living drive 10 or 20 miles one night to get home and maybe 200 miles the next night.
The article means nothing unless we know more about who ran the study and how it was run
If we have not learned that from the wu-flu, shame on us.
good points, and agreed
And, the treatment (xPAP) is drug-free and works quite well.
Your creepiness increases with each passing year.
Yeah, I get it. I need regular sleep habits. But nobody has an answer for the problem of getting up several times a night to pee.
Get your prostate and PSA checked. You should know the size and where in the PSA scoring you have just an enlarged prostate or something cancerous.
There are multiple drugs and supplements that can help, and also therapies that can kill off problematic prostate growth.
One technique that evenly reduces the prostate from all sides, was posted here:
Embolization
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CBD helps me. It encourages REM sleep, even after waking up in the night. You get vivid dreams though. Last night, I dreamed I was single, living with my parents and trying to get a date with a girl.
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