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Article: Lower your blood pressure while you sleep: an evening dose of antihypertensive drugs may help your blood vessels relax and improve your kidney function.(HYPERTENSION)
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- Heart Advisor
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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We all know that exercise and even agitation can raise your blood pressure. Conversely, a peaceful night's sleep should bring it down--as much as 10 to 20 percent for healthy adults.
However, many people with hypertension find their that blood pressure doesn't dip overnight. And that can be a major contributor to serious cardiovascular and kidney problems.
"Optimal control of blood pressure is important at all times," says Cleveland Clinic cardiologist and hypertension specialist Fetnat Fouad-Terazi, MD. "It helps prevent atherosclerosis and retards the progression of renal disease."
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