By Caribbean Medical News Staff
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that around 1 in 3 adults in the United States have high blood pressure (HBP). That works out to around 70 million people, or 29% of the population. Conversely, only 52% of people with HBP, otherwise known as hypertension, have control of their condition.
If HBP goes unmanaged, it may perhaps lead to metabolic syndrome, which can cause a plethora of disorders which increases the likelihood of suffering a stroke, diabetes or heart disease.
In one study, researchers studied the value of using blood pressure to predict new-onset diabetes. 2,656 people with inconsistent blood pressure, who did not have diabetes prior to the study, were examined.
Interestingly, after 5 years, 190 volunteers had developed type 2 diabetes. The examiners discovered that sleep-time blood pressure levels were a substantial indicator for the development of diabetes, with changes in blood pressure preceding rather than following the onset of the illness.
Based on the outcome of the study, the researchers came to the conclusion that lowering sleep-time blood pressure could be an unorthodox technique for reducing the possibility of new-onset diabetes.
This means that diabetes risk fell by an astonishing 57% in patients who took medication before bed.
In another study, another scientist aimed to test whether taking hypertension medication before sleeping was more effective at reducing the risk of diabetes than taking medication after waking up.
This study had 2,012 volunteers with HBP, who were arbitrarily allotted to either take all of their hypertension medication upon wakening or to take the entire daily dose of one or more of their prescribed medication at time of rest.
None of the volunteers had diabetes prior to the study, and the researchers tracked the developed of the disease for a period of 6 years. A follow up check was done, which revealed that 171 participants developed type 2 diabetes.
The ones who were assigned to take their medication before bedtime had significantly lower average sleep-time blood pressure and a greater sleep-time relative blood pressure decline than those who took their medication in the a.m.
The most significant factor was the result which showed that the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes decreased by 57% in the group of patients who took their medicine before bedtime.
