Can you imagine that something as simple as improper sleep can be one of the causes of elevated blood pressure?

This is a well known fact for adults, but recently a new study suggests that there is a link between inadequate, low-quality sleep and healthy teen.

Teenagers with inefficient sleep (meaning they have trouble falling asleep or wake early) and those with insufficient sleep (less or equal to 6.5 hours a day) had an increased risk of having elevated blood pressure.

Even after adjustment for other possible contributing factors, teens with poor sleeping patterns had systolic blood-pressure levels that were on average 4 mm Hg higher than other children; which is really significant.

This is just one reason to push us more into giving our sleep time more importance. There are several other reasons.

So sleep well from now on!!!!!

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