Sunday, July 28, 2013

Lack of sleep during adolescence is full of health problems in the future

Insufficient sleep adolescents not only leads to sleepiness at school, but also to high blood pressure, say U.S. experts. Scientists conducted a study that teens who slept less than 6.5 hours, the risk of high blood pressure doubled found. The study was published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Specialists have found that grew up after the teenager began sex life to live, to monitor weight and assume a certain social status, hypertension persisted. This shows that the lack of sleep during adolescence led to health problems for a long time in the future. Also causes high blood pressure damage to the arteries and kidneys, causing heart attacks, kidney disease, stroke and other diseases. A team of scientists led by Dr. Susan Redline studied the effects of lack of sleep with the participation of 238 adolescents aged 13 to 16 years. It was found that 14% of young people suffer from high blood pressure. On average young people slept about 7.7 hours if you need 9 hours in this age. According to experts, it is very important information for health reasons do not give much importance to lack of sleep as a teenager, and now try to further investigate the problem, scientists hope.

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