{"id":310,"date":"2012-02-21T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T06:50:13","slug":"can-lack-of-sleep-lead-to-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/can-lack-of-sleep-lead-to-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Lack of Sleep lead to High Blood Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Possibly. It&#8217;s thought that sleeping less than six hours a night could be linked to increased blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>People who sleep five hours or less a night may be at higher risk of developing high blood pressure or worsening already high blood pressure. There&#8217;s also an increased risk of high blood pressure for people who sleep between five and six hours a night, although that risk is not as high as it is for people who sleep five hours or less a night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought that sleep helps your blood regulate stress hormones and helps your nervous system remain healthy. Over time, a lack of sleep could hurt your body&#8217;s ability to regulate stress hormones, leading to high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping seven to eight hours a night may play a role in the treatment and prevention of high blood pressure. Talk to your doctor for tips on getting better sleep, especially if you have high blood pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Possibly. It&#8217;s thought that sleeping less than six hours a night could be linked to increased blood pressure. People who sleep five hours or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,185,299],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-hypertension","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}