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.
