Snoring and hypertension

People sleep breathing frequency and depth is absolutely uniform, even a short apnea phenomenon, if a pause of less than 10 seconds, will not affect sleep arterial blood oxygen content, this phenomenon is normal. But if a pause for 10 seconds or more, then known as apnea. Causes sleep apnea have many causes, such as the elderly patients with heart failure, chronic renal insufficiency, central nervous system lesions, and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is the result of airway obstruction produces a series of consequences. Due to low oxygen stimulate the central nervous system enables patients to hold up, then come back to normal, so repeated holding, night happen dozens of times over, causing poor sleep quality, appears light sleep state. Breathing repeatedly suspended production of hypoxia and hypercapnia, can cause pulmonary hypertension and cardiac insufficiency. Hypoxia-induced central nervous system may be sympathetic, release adrenaline boost substances, peripheral vascular contraction, the rise in blood pressure. These changes enable patients to have the following symptoms, such as sleepiness, morning headache, personality changes, excitable, mental decline, bad memory, such as coronary heart disease-prone.

According to the survey, in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, 50% more concurrent with hypertension, in patients with essential hypertension, 30% of people with chronic obstructive sleep syndrome. The majority of patients with blood pressure fluctuations above, when blood pressure is not decline during sleep, and even some nocturnal blood pressure more than daytime blood pressure. Some people think that the obstructive sleep syndrome is a cause of hypertension, as to the exact cause is unknown, waiting to be explored.

Perhaps you think that snoring is a small, frequent, in fact, it's not latent danger. Obstructive sleep apnea may enable the coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular accident rate increased substantially. On hypertension left ventricular hypertrophy is more dangerous, because the sympathetic, hypoxia and hypercapnia prone to cause serious cardiac rhythm disorders and sudden death. Therefore, you should give positive treatment of, first of all try to get rid of airway obstruction, surgical treatment if necessary. Overweight should control diet, increase in sports. Drinking and sleeping pills may increase airway obstruction during sleep, alcohol and the use of sleeping pills. The patient supine can increase the snoring, the best side. In recent years, on the severe patient adopt of nasal continuous positive pressure breathing therapy, the effect is very good, not only can improve sleep quality, but also the prevention of cardiovascular complications. On hypertension can be combined with antihypertensive drug therapy. Western complex preparation zhenju to Chrysanthemum INDICUM, Pearl powder, Samuel m, as the main ingredient, has the effect of decreasing steadily, indeed, long-term use without obvious side effects, etc., has become the hypertension drug standing suit.

(Editors: Han 1m1m SWE)