Irregular sleep leads to high blood pressure in adolescents with high visceral fat. Reported by the American Heart Association.
Staying up late at night and sleeping long hours on weekends are hallmarks of adolescent behavior. [в американской традиции к подросткам относят людей до 20 лет]. Quality sleep is known to be important to health, but a new study shows that sleep plays an even bigger role in teens.
During the experiment, the scientists monitored the adolescents’ sleep, as well as their blood pressure and visceral fat. Visceral fat is adipose tissue that accumulates in the abdominal cavity and is located near vital organs. The study included 303 people (mean age 16.2%, 47.5% female, 21.5% black or Hispanic) from central Pennsylvania. Sleep parameters were measured one night in the laboratory and 7 days at home using a sleep monitoring wrist device. Physicians were concerned with sleep duration and sleep variability (to determine how much sleep teens get from night to night), as well as mid-sleep duration (the midpoint between sleep and wake time) and sleep regularity.
It turns out that irregular sleep increases the effect of visceral fat on health. Among study teens whose sleep varied by 45 minutes or more during the school week, each unit increase in visceral fat was associated with a 7 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure. Art. 3 mmHg Art. diastolic blood pressure. In contrast, no association was found between visceral adiposity and high blood pressure among adolescents whose sleep duration was less than 45 minutes during the school week. Chronically high blood pressure often has a negative effect on the body.
The authors conclude that regular sleep patterns may protect adolescents from the cardiovascular consequences of obesity.
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