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 ...
I can’t imagine that the increased risk is due to getting up several times a night to pee. I rarely sleep through the night, and my blood pressure is low and heartbeat is slow.
Perhaps people who develop high blood pressure start needing to get up more often to pee as a result of the effect of high pressure on the kidneys?
There’s the joke about the three old men in the nursing home and the first one says “What I wouldn’t give to take a good healthy piss again.”
“Ha,” scoffed the second one. “What I’d give to take a good healthy crap again.”
The third old man said, “Every morning at seven o’clock, I take a good, healthy piss. And at eight o’clock every morning, I take a good, healthy crap.”
The two other men looked at him as he continued.
“I just wish I could wake up before nine.”
“ONLY running, nada mas”.
That’s BS. A brisk walk is very good.
This was one of the funniest replys I have read in a long time. laughed so hard had to go... seriously
And here I thought it was just a sign that I had too many beers before going to bed...
don’t drink a six-pack of anything before bedtime and expect to sleep through the night. But, keep an eye on the Prostate...Been there, done that.
I used to go all night without having to get up to pee. But then I started drinking more water.....now it’s usually twice a night, which doesn’t seem excessive to me. I do have high BP but it’s controlled by meds.
Did you get it from the toilet seat?
Urination is what Israel was told in 1948.
Ba-doom-TISH!
Or as I tell my distracted dog
as his walkie takes too long,
“Give piss a chance.”
Well, I’m gonna start wetting the bed, just to be on the safe side.
lol
It used to be that our culture included proper care and feeding of our bodies. Now we eat the way global conglomerates tell us to.
Eat a good breakfast and lunch, and skip dinner like your ancestors did. Why do you think they call it break”fast”? The long break from food resets your insulin response, preventing diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and all those nasties.
I relate to some of your challenges. Read, listen to the radio or reply to family messages until 1-2 or 3 AM. The next thing I know it is after 10 AM. Today it was 11:30 and I do not get up between turning out the light and waking up. I guess I am a night owl and do not do mornings
Sorry, but these latest greatest “Studies” usually end up being rethought and deemed inconclusive later!
Sometimes peeing is just peeing!
A Doctor explained a recent study that sounded quite convincing. But to each their own.
The human body is evolved to run. The proof is in the high.
Cows are built to laze around in a pasture.
Humans are built to move.
“Getting up to pee in the night is an early warning sign for heart attack and stroke...”
If only in the sense that you haven’t died of something else yet.
LOL...I pay no attention to these things, as you probably can guess.
Coffee is bad for you. Coffee is good for you.
Eggs are bad for you. Eggs are good for you.
Alcohol is bad for you. Alcohol is good for you.
And so on and so on! I just do what I want...and I hope when I go, regardless of what the experts say...I’ll know if my life was well spent or not...:)
The generalization of the biochemistry in this article is of concern. Urination frequency is a function of kidney efficiency and rate of filtration, and the storage capacity of the bladder. This appears to be a “polling” study combined with what are called metadata.
Diabetics urinate a lot— and spill sugar— and suffer inordinately more from heart attack and stroke, due to dyscrasias of sugar metabolism, and damage to tissues from microvascular disease that results. This shows up in the metadata.
Generally— drink a lot of fluids and have good kidneys and no urinary tract problems-—one is going to pee frequently. Retention becomes more difficult with age also due to less powerful sphincter control of the bladder. Facts, and age.
The older one gets the greater the chance of a stroke or MI.
So, when a 6-year-old has to pee in the middle of the night, and wets the bed, he’s just preventing a heart attack?
Used to be a device called the traveling salesman’s buddy, I think. Consisted of a sleeve that fit over the penis that was attached to a hose than went down to a pouch. Salesman could drive all day and never have to stop to take a leak. Maybe it’s still available.
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