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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Chronicle-Express.com The Chronicle-Express

Poor sleep may make high blood pressure worse

Study found those who struggled with insomnia were twice as likely to have resistant hypertension
fellow at the Institute of Clinical Physiology-National Council of Research in Pisa. "The results ... suggest that Insomnia is nobody's friend, but new research indicates that insomnia in resistant hypertenpatients, particularly those with high blood pressure sive who struggle to get enough women, could be clinically relesound sleep are twice as likely to vant not only for quality of life have a resistant case of hyper- but also for cardiovascular tension as those who sleep well. health and should not be disreStudying more than 230 pa- garded," she added. The study is scheduled to be tients with hypertension, scientists from the University of Pisa presented Friday at the Ameriin Italy also found that women can Heart Association's High scored far higher than men on Blood Pressure Research meetmeasures of poor sleep quality, ing in Washington, D.C. About 75 million Americans and most participants slept six or fewer hours per night. The have diagnosed high blood presparticipants had an average age sure, with 50 million taking anti-hypertensive drugs. But of 58. "There are a number of stud- medications don't sufciently ies demonstrating a relationship control the condition a major between hypertension risk and risk factor for heart disease in insomnia and short sleep dura- 20 percent to 30 percent of those tion, but no one correlated poor cases, according to the heart assleep quality with hypertension sociation. High blood pressure is considseverity [before]," said study author Rosa Maria Bruno, a doc- ered resistant if patients are toral student and research taking three or more hypertenBy Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter Dr. Balu Gadhe, an internal medicine specialist with CareMore Medical Group in Cerritos, Calif., said the research highlights the need for good sleep habits, including getting regular exercise to promote peaceful slumber. "We are all wired up in dayto-day life, where we have multiple stressors in our lives. Our body reacts to those stressors by releasing hormones ... and other chemicals into our bodies that make the organs work harder," he said. "If we're not getting good sleep, we're not getting rest for those organs, sion medications but still log and eventually, they'll start malblood pressure readings higher functioning. That's the bottom than 140/90 mmHg. line, and the only way to do it is Although short sleep duration not just by getting enough hours was highly prevalent in all study of sleep but good quality sleep." participants, women were found Research presented at sciento suffer disproportionately from tic meetings has not been peerpoor sleep quality and depres- reviewed or published, so results sive symptoms. About 12 per- should be considered prelimicent of participants had nary. experienced previous cardiovasMore information: cular events, while 8 percent A list of the top 10 things to had diabetes and 15 percent know about resistant hypertenwere smokers. sion can be found at the AmeriBruno said the research didn't can Heart Association. analyze potential reasons why SOURCES: Rosa Maria bad sleep may lead to resistant Bruno, Ph.D. student, Univerhypertension and didn't es- sity of Pisa, and research fellow, tablish a cause-effect relation- Institute of Clinical Physiology, ship between the two but that National Council of Research, sleep and cardiovascular disor- Pisa, Italy; Balu Gadhe, M.D., ders are tightly linked. Sleep internal medicine specialist, problems also are related to obe- CareMore Medical Group, Cerrisity and diabetes, which con- tos, Calif.; Sept. 21, 2012, prestribute to resistance to entation, American Heart blood-pressure-lowering drugs, Association High Blood Pressure she said. Research meeting, Washington, "We can't exclude that living D.C. with a chronic disease, like reLast Updated: Sept. 21, 2012 sistant hypertension, may act as Copyright 2012 HealthDay. a chronic stressor, causing dis- All rights reserved. ruption of sleep," Bruno said.

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