Sleep Duration and Insomnia in the Elderly: Associations With Blood Pressure Variability and Carotid Artery Remodeling

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that short and long sleep durations and insomnia are associated with increased home-measured blood pressure (BP) variability, which in turn has a relationship with arterial stiffness. However, the determinants for visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure (SBP) vari...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of hypertension 2013-08, Vol.26 (8), p.981-989
Hauptverfasser: Nagai, Michiaki, Hoshide, Satoshi, Nishikawa, Mami, Shimada, Kazuyuki, Kario, Kazuomi
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Zusammenfassung:BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that short and long sleep durations and insomnia are associated with increased home-measured blood pressure (BP) variability, which in turn has a relationship with arterial stiffness. However, the determinants for visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure (SBP) variability have rarely been investigated in relation to sleep duration, insomnia, and carotid arterial stiffness. METHOD The subjects were 201 elderly individuals (79.9±6.4 years old) with one or more cardiovascular risks. Based on 12 visits, visit-to-visit BP variability (expressed as a coefficient of variation [CV]) and δ (maximum − minimum) BP were measured. Self-reported sleep duration and insomnia questionnaires were used to classify the patients according to sleep duration period and insomnia status. RESULTS After multivariable adjustment, long sleep duration (≥ 9 hours per night) had significant positive associations with SBP δ (P < 0.05), while persistent insomnia had significant positive associations with SBP CV (P < 0.05) and δ (P < 0.01). Additionally, significant interactions were found in terms of long sleep duration by carotid artery stiffness parameter β (P < 0.05), persistent insomnia by intima-media thickness (P < 0.01), and persistent insomnia by stiffness parameter β (P < 0.05) for SBP δ. CONCLUSION In elderly patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease, long sleep duration as well as persistent insomnia were significantly associated with higher visit-to-visit BP variability. Long sleep duration and persistent insomnia each had synergetic interactions with carotid artery stiffness and with visit-to-visit BP variability.
ISSN:0895-7061
1941-7225
DOI:10.1093/ajh/hpt070