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Short Sleep Duration as a Risk Factor for Hypertension: Analyses of the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by James E. Gangwisch; Steven B. Heymsfield; Bernadette Boden-Albala; Ruud M. Buijs; Felix Kreier; Thomas G. Pickering; Andrew G. Rundle; Gary K. Zammit; Dolores Malaspina is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Depriving healthy subjects of sleep has been shown to acutely increase blood pressure and sympathetic nervous system activity. Prolonged short sleep durations could lead to hypertension through extended exposure to raised 24-hour blood pressure and heart rate, elevated sympathetic nervous system activity, and increased salt retention. Such forces could lead to structural adaptations and the entrainment of the cardiovascular system to operate at an elevated pressure equilibrium. Sleep disorders are associated with cardiovascular disease, but we are not aware of any published prospective population studies that have shown a link between short sleep duration and the incidence of hypertension in subjects without apparent sleep disorders. We assessed whether short sleep duration would increase the risk for hypertension incidence by conducting longitudinal analyses of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ( __n__ =4810) using Cox proportional hazards models and controlling for covariates. Hypertension incidence ( __n__ =647) was determined by physician diagnosis, hospital record, or cause of death over the 8- to 10-year follow-up period between 1982 and 1992. Sleep d

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Author

James E. Gangwisch; Steven B. Heymsfield; Bernadette Boden-Albala; Ruud M. Buijs; Felix Kreier; Thomas G. Pickering; Andrew G. Rundle; Gary K. Zammit; Dolores Malaspina

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)