Sleep and Hypertension:

      Sleep And Hypertesion 

Background: To evaluate the association of sleep factors

 (sleep duration, self-reported trouble sleeping, 

diagnosed sleep disorder) and combined sleep behaviors

 with the risk of hypertension. 

Methods: We analyzed 12,166 adults aged 30–79 years who participated in the 2007–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

 Sleep duration, self-reported trouble sleeping and sleep disorders were collected using a standardized questionnaire. 

We included three sleep factors (sleep duration,

 self-reported trouble sleeping and sleep disorder) 

to generate an overall sleep score, ranging from 0 to 3. We then defined the sleep pattern as “healthy sleep pattern” (overall sleep score = 3), “intermediate sleep pattern” (overall sleep score = 2), and “poor sleep pattern” (0 ≤ overall sleep score ≤ 1) based on the overall sleep score.

 The definition of hypertension was based on self-reported antihypertensive medication use or biological measurement (systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg).

 We used weighted logistic regression models to investigate the associations between sleep and hypertension. 

Results: The overall prevalence of hypertension was 37.8%. A short sleep duration (OR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.08 to 1.33, p = 0.001), self-reported trouble sleeping (OR = 1.45, 95% CI: 1.28 to 1.65, p < 0.001) and sleep disorder (OR = 1.33, 95% CI: 1.07 to 1.66, p = 0.012) were related to the risk of hypertension. 

Poor sleep patterns were closely correlated with the risk of hypertension (OR = 1.90, 95% CI: 1.62 to 2.24). 

Conclusions: Participants with poor sleep patterns were associated with an increased risk for hypertension.

Ref

 Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 25;18(15):7867. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18157867

Relationship between Sleep and Hypertension: 

Findings from the NHANES (2007–2014)

Chunnan Li 1, Shaomei Shang 1,*