London: An early bedtime and proper sleep could provide great help in normalising high blood pressure (BP) or hypertension, the Daily Mail quoted a recent study conducted at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The study said that people were able to bring it down to healthy levels in just six weeks who were showing early signs of high BP if they had an extra hour in bed every night.
Lack of sleep and a stressful lifestyle have long been tied to an increased BP risk but the latest study was one of the first to prove that BP can be brought under control by simply increasing sleep duration.
High BP or hypertension affects every one out of five adults in Britain and is thought to be responsible for 50% of all heart attacks and strokes.
It was estimated that more than half of all patients have ‘poorly controlled’ blood pressure which means they had readings in the danger zone above 140mmHg/90mmHg, a measure of the amount of force inside arteries when the heart is forcing blood through them and the force when it relaxes.
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