Lacking sleep boosts risk of high blood pressure, study finds

Sleeping less than seven or eight hours a night as a routine puts people at risk for high blood pressure, a study found. The less the adults participating in the research slept, the more likely they were to see their blood pressure rise, according to research published in Archives of Internal Medicine. For every hour of missed sleep, odds of developing the condition rose an average 37 percent over five years, said Kristen Knutson, the lead author. Skipping two hours sleep raised the blood pressure risk 86 percent - Bloomberg