High Blood Pressure due to stubborn "Snoring"

If you suffer from hypertension, and blood pressure is difficult to control even have to drink more than 3 kinds of anti-hypertensive drugs, consider your sleep. Snoring? Snoring? Enough sleep, but still sleepy?

Sleep apnea and hypertension 

Early discovery of sleep apnea (stopping breathing during sleep), the actual beginning of hypertensive patients. A group of researchers found that hypertensive patients tend to be sleepy during the day, whereas the number of sleep enough. At that time, it was known as the main symptom of narcolepsy. Therefore, the hypertensive patients diperiksakanlah. Not narcolepsy, instead found the presence of snoring and stopping breathing during sleep.

Since then, examination bed equipped with recording functions of the heart and breathing, in addition to recording brain waves, eye, and muscle. Prof. Guilleminault named this disease as obstructive sleep apnea.

Snoring or snoring proved to be a sign of narrowing of the airway during sleep. Airway can be repeatedly clogged during sleep to a chain reaction that caused causes an increase in high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, death, and impotence.

Sleep apnea or cessation of breathing during sleep characterized by snoring during sleep habits. However, people who snore do not necessarily suffer from sleep apnea, you know. He should be sent first to distinguish.

Unfortunately, the relationship of hypertension and snoring as sunk by the popularity of the new findings that snoring or sleep apnea is very dangerous. Only about 30 years ago, Kales and colleagues write their findings in a leading medical journal, Lancet. In the study mentioned the close relationship between hypertension and sleep apnea left untreated. Exactly, 30 percent of people with hypertension had stopped breathing during sleep.

Furthermore, a group of researchers from Spain provided data that sleep apnea patients who were treated using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) experienced a significant decrease in blood pressure. The more severe snoring, sleep apnea worsened suffered, and the better use of their CPAP, will better the blood pressure.

research 

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in August 2014 showed that the severity of sleep apnea is closely linked to an increase in blood pressure is difficult to control.

Although patients with hypertension had consumed more than three kinds of anti-hypertensive medication, his blood pressure still remains difficult to control. Hypertension suffered as stubborn. The condition is often referred to as resistant hypertension is berkaian closely with the severity of sleep apnea.

In these studies, patients with sleep apnea are (AHI / stop breathing 15-30 per hour) compared with severe (AHI / stop breathing> 30 per hour). The result, 95 percent of people with severe sleep apnea have hypertension despite the possibility of drinking more than three kinds of anti-hypertensive drugs.

conclusion 

The experts argue, treatment of hypertension, especially those who have undergone aggressive treatment, should include the possibility of sleep apnea ataudengkuran. Article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2013 showed that treatment of sleep apnea with CPAP for 12 weeks will lower blood pressure daily average of 3 mmHg. Although looks small, number 3 mmHg great significance to reduce the risk of heart diseases and other blood vessels.