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Article: UW study links high blood pressure, sleep apnea
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 20, 1997
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Chronic high blood pressure has been linked to sleep apnea and may
account for up to 2.4 million cases of high blood pressure
nationwide, according to research at the University of Wisconsin
Medical School. Researchers examined 1,060 employed people ages
30 to 60 in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study and found that those
with mild to moderate sleep apnea 15 breathing pauses an hour while
sleeping were nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure
than people without apnea.
Sleep apnea is a condition in which there are periods of
abnormally long breathing pauses.
"If we assume that there is a causal relationship between sleep
disordered breathing and hypertension, we can ...