MID-DAY SLEEP EFFECTS AS POTENT AS RECOMMENDED LIFESTYLE CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

Authors :: Manolis S. Kallistratos
Athanasios J. Manolis
Nestoras Kontogiannis
A. Koukouzeli
Andreas S. Triantafyllis
Leonidas E. Poulimenos
K. Kyfnidis
Pavlos Tsinivizov
Andreas Pittaras
Nikolaos Kouremenos
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 73:20
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2019.
Abstract: Lifestyle changes decrease blood pressure (BP) levels by 3 to 5 mmHg in patients with arterial hypertension. This study had the purpose to assess the effect of mid-day sleep on blood pressure levels in hypertensive patients. We prospectively studied two hundred and twelve (212) hypertensive

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Sleep in non-human animals
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Blood pressure
Internal medicine
medicine
Cardiology
In patient
030212 general & internal medicine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business

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