Diagnosis And Appropriate Treatment Of Chronic Insomnia Should Become The Target Of Public Health Policy, Findings Suggest

A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to demonstrate that chronic insomnia with objectively measured short sleep time is an independent and clinically significant risk factor for hypertension. Results indicate that participants with insomnia and an objectively measured, severely short sleep duration of less than five hours had a risk for hypertension that was 500 percent higher than participants without insomnia who slept more than six hours.

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on April 6th, 2009