Teens need 9 hours of sleep
Less than nine hours of good quality sleep puts teenagers at risk for high blood pressure, as well as a number of other physical and psychosocial health problems.
In a recent study from Case Western Reserve University, high blood pressure was significantly linked with inadequate sleep. In this research, teens who slept fewer than 6 1/2 hours a night had more than twice the risk of high blood pressure and those with troubled sleep had more than triple the risk.
Often referred to as “the Silent Killer”, high blood pressure can insidiously damage any organ in your body for years before symptoms develop.
Read more from Bay Area Medical Information (www.bami.us):
via Javaheri S, et al., “Sleep quality and elevated blood pressure in adolescents” Circulation 2008; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.766410
via MedPage Today, August 2008
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