Sleep hypertension?

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Sleep induced hypertension often increases blood pressure during sleep or after waking up. It may be related to the increase of sympathetic activity caused by shallow and slow breathing, apnea, fluctuation of heart rate, decrease of blood oxygen saturation and increase of carbon dioxide concentration during sleep. More common in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and snoring with sleep apnea. Sleep hypertension? Let's talk about it

Sleep hypertension?

In hypertension, there is a special kind of hypertension, called sleep hypertension. This kind of high blood pressure often rises during sleep or after waking up. It may be related to the increase of sympathetic activity caused by shallow and slow breathing, apnea, fluctuation of heart rate, decrease of blood oxygen saturation and increase of carbon dioxide concentration during sleep. More common in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and snoring with sleep apnea.

As the secretion of upper respiratory tract increased or blocked during sleep, the oxygen saturation decreased and the concentration of carbon dioxide increased, resulting in increased sympathetic activity. However, sympathetic hyperactivity can cause compensatory changes in peripheral resistance arterioles, resulting in wall hypertrophy, lumen stenosis, increased responsiveness to vasoconstrictor active substances, resulting in increased blood pressure, and often due to blood gas changes and various arrhythmias and other cardiovascular diseases.

The treatment of sleep hypertension is mainly to correct the apnea caused by airway obstruction. Generally, after the airway obstruction is relieved, the blood pressure of most patients will drop significantly, even to normal. Therefore, sleep should take the right position, try to avoid or reduce snoring, suffocation, in order to avoid apnea and blood pressure rise. At the same time, we should also pay attention not to smoke, not to drink, not to accept sleeping pills, keep the nasal tract unobstructed, do not breathe.

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Once the occurrence of sleep hypertension, to timely diagnosis and treatment in the hospital, according to the actual situation to make the corresponding treatment, is conducive to the recovery of the disease, in daily life to timely prevention, develop a good living habits, can play the purpose of preventing hypertension.