Posted on 03/30/2019 8:06:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
HAVING to get up in the middle of the night to pee could mean you have high blood pressure, scientists have discovered.
The risk is raised by 40 per cent by trips to the loo. And the more times you get up, the higher the chance.
High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks and strokes if left untreated. More than one in four adults in the UK have high blood pressure, although many won't realise it.
Dr Satoshi Konno of Japan’s Tohoku Rosai Hospital, which quizzed 3,749 people, warned sufferers to cut salt intake.
Compared to western countries, people in Japan eat more salt and are more likely to be "salt sensitive", meaning that their blood pressure rises more when salt is consumed.
Taken together, these two factors mean that people in Japan are at greater risk of developing high blood pressure.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
than I guess I’m screwed since I pee like 8 times a light..bladder the size of a walnut lol and I have low blood pressure so this study makes zero sense
Both increases with age.
It’s mostly the sign of a full bladder.
I was always an oddball when it came to that.
Could drink 10 beers and not go until I got home.
I’m 50 now and it really hasn’t changed.
Could be out 10 hours, have 8 or 9 drinks and not have to go.
But then when I realize it when I get home, WOW is it urgent! :)
Oh, gee. I guess I am doomed. Oh well!
Or you could simply be a 40+ year old man.
Wouldn’t high blood pressure also be a sign of high blood pressure? It’s easy enough to check directly.
Don’t drink water after 8pm
I never get up in the middle of the night to relieve myself.
Then again, I am usually up in the middle of the night...
I have been getting up to pee in the middle of the night my ENTIRE LIFE!!! Wonder how much money government gave them for this USELESS program!!!
or no bladder sphincter
Well, I’m gonna start wetting the bed, just to be on the safe side.
Bogus study is sign that studies are bogus.
I’m hosed. I’ve been getting up every night for the last 60 years.
Well, then, I should have been dead long ago.
DANG!
...that you drank too much water or tea before going to bed.
Now people without blood pressure problems might begin to stress out over something that may not even be related and get high blood pressure because of articles like this.
Then I am in big trouble.
I’m a goner......
This is stupid. Getting up to pee has lots of causes. And heart attacks do not occur with the overwhelming majority of people who get up to pee.
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