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Article: SLEEP APNEA MAY CAUSE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Apnea, the disorder that interrupts people's breathing while they sleep, may be a cause of high blood pressure rather than something that accompanies it, researchers suggest in a study.
The team from the University of Wisconsin looked at more than 700 people for four to eight years. Some had sleep apnea; others did not. The worse their apnea was at the start of the study, the more likely they were to develop high blood pressure later on.
Since the apnea came first, this is the strongest evidence yet that apnea may be a cause or something that speeds the progress of high blood pressure, said Paul E. Peppard of the preventive medicine department.
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