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- Too little sleep raises blood pressure risk -study (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Missed hour of sleep raises risk by 37 pct over 5 years * Poor sleep may explain blood pressure rates in black men By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, June 8 (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who get ...
- Less sleep associated with high, worsening blood pressure in middle age (EurekAlert!)
Middle-aged adults who sleep fewer hours appear more likely to have high blood pressure and to experience adverse changes in blood pressure over time, according to a report in the June 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
- Lacking Sleep Boosts Risk of High Blood Pressure, Study Finds (Bloomberg)
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sleeping less than seven or eight hours a night as a routine puts people at risk for high blood pressure , a study found. The less the adults participating in the research slept, the more likely they were to see their blood pressure rise, according to research published in yesterday?s Archives of Internal Medicine.
- Less sleep raises blood pressure (Stuff)
Middle-aged adults who get too little sleep are more likely to develop high blood pressure. The study, among the first to directly measure sleep duration in middle-aged adults, found missing an average one hour of sleep over five years raised the risk of developing high blood pressure by 37 percent.
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