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Insomnia and Few Hours Sleep May Mean High Blood Pressure on the Way

The world of science has recently come forth with yet another reason for us to get our Z’s: turns out that chronic insomnia along with a short sleep time is an independent and clinically significant risk factor for hypertension. In the study, participants with insomnia and an objectively-measured, sleep duration of less than five hours had a risk for hypertension that was 500 % higher than participants without insomnia who slept more than six hours. They also found that people with insomnia and a moderatelyshort sleep duration of five to six hours had a risk of hypertension that was 350 % higher than normal sleepers.

In contrast, neither just insomnia with a normal sleep duration of more than six hours nor a short sleep duration without insomnia was associated with a significant risk for hypertension. So this means that there is an additive or synergistic effect on hypertension risk when insomnia occurs in combination with a short sleep duration. We do need to note that that many times, the amount that we feel we slept is different from the actual amount that we have slept, so in order to know, you’d need to go to a sleep doctor for assessment. The study was cross-sectional so it did not allow for causality to be determined, but the authors note that large amounts of clinical and research data indicate that it is most likely that insomnia leads to hypertension and not the other way around.

Previous reports have shown that insomnia with short sleep duration is associated with hypersecretion of cortisol, increased catecholaminergic activity, increased heart rate and 24-hour metabolic rate, and impaired heart rate variability which may all lead to hypertension and other cardiovascular events. Bottom line is that the study urges people with insomnia to seek evaluation and treatment from their medical provider. And those of you with just insomnia and normal sleep—you may have a lower risk for physical problems but you’re still are at risk for depression and may suffer from the behavioral effects of insomnia—so you too should see your doctor!

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Insomnia and Few Hours Sleep May Mean High Blood Pressure on the Way

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How To Tackle Sleeping Problems

Sleeping is such a natural thing to do and it can seem odd that some people have trouble falling asleep and it is not uncommon to suffer from sleeping problems and insomnia

In the natural world animals sleep easily but not if they feel stressed because the fear pumps adrenaline into their system to keep them active My friends and I do not have the problems wild animals do and we do not have to be worried about predators but we do get stressed in other ways.

Because we lead such busy lives and modern life is so very complicated there are so many things we have to deal with in everyday life and we should not be surprised we find it all difficult to know how best to deal with so many different things. When you finally get to bed at night some of these worries remain while you may not be actively worrying about the issues your subconscious mind probably is continuing to worry.

Feeling weary and needing sleep you try to rest but while your mind is active worrying about things you cannot relax and get to sleep. The more you lay awake the more you worry about getting to sleep and eventually you begin to feel annoyed knowing you will be tired the following day.

If you are to relax and fall asleep you need to get over these problems that are preventing your mind from reaching a relaxed state allow yourself to get over the problems associated with insomnia. You might try resolving to deal with the worries you have at a certain time the following day and you will not think any more about it until that time Taking action and making a decisioncan allow you to relax knowing you have taken an active step for dealing with whatever problem has been worrying you Pushing my mind away from what worries me so I can sleep and relax because I know that the problem will be acted on when I wake up in the morning.

Clearing your mind of worrying thoughts so they are no longer troubling you is one of the best insomnia solutions and an important art of relaxing and reading a book in bed works well for some people.

Milky drinks work well for some people to help them be calmer and relax enabling them to gently slip into restfull sleep but caffeine is probably best avoided at this time of day. We all need our sleep and to succeed the secret is to allow your mind and body to relax and anything that helps you find ways to fall asleep is helpful in avoiding insomnia.