1. Snoring and Blood Pressure in Third‐Trimester Normotensive Pregnant Women.
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Tsai, Shao‐Yu, Lee, Pei‐Lin, and Lee, Chien‐Nan
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HYPERTENSION in pregnancy , *ACTIGRAPHY , *BLOOD pressure , *CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors , *GESTATIONAL age , *INTERVIEWING , *RESEARCH methodology , *EVALUATION of medical care , *THIRD trimester of pregnancy , *REGRESSION analysis , *SLEEP , *SNORING , *SPHYGMOMANOMETERS , *STATISTICS , *BODY mass index , *CROSS-sectional method , *ODDS ratio , *PREGNANCY , *PREVENTION - Abstract
Abstract: Purpose: To examine the association between snoring, sleep quality, quantity, and blood pressure in third‐trimester normotensive pregnant women. Design: This study was a cross‐sectional analysis of two cohorts of healthy pregnant women recruited from a prenatal clinic in a medical center in Northern Taiwan. Methods: A total of 322 women reported sociodemographic and health characteristics in a structured interview and wore a wrist actigraph on their nondominant wrist for 7 consecutive days to assess objective sleep patterns. The women's resting blood pressures were measured while seated in the clinic by trained personnel using an electronic sphygmomanometer. Findings: One hundred thirty‐three (41.3%) women reported snoring. Ninety‐three women (28.9%) had <6 hr of nighttime sleep, with only 95 (29.5%) women averaging 7 or more hours of nighttime sleep. In the univariate analyses, snoring was positively associated with systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as mean arterial pressure levels (p < .05). In the multivariate analyses, snoring remained as a significant predictor of higher diastolic blood pressure (β = 2.07, p < .05) and mean arterial pressure levels (β = 2.00, p < .05), after adjustment for age, parity, gestational age, body mass index before pregnancy, and sleep quantity and quality by actigraphy. Conclusions: Snoring is a highly prevalent condition experienced by healthy third‐trimester pregnant women and is associated with elevated blood pressure. Clinical Relevance: Clinical assessment and screening of snoring are of utmost importance in obstetric nursing practice to potentially prevent or reduce the associated adverse cardiovascular consequences in women during pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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