Ethnic Differences in Sleep Quality Accompany Ethnic Differences in Night-time Blood Pressure Dipping | Zendy

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Ethnic Differences in Sleep Quality Accompany Ethnic Differences in Night-time Blood Pressure Dipping

Author(s) -

Joel W. Hughes,

Ihori Kobayashi,

Nathan T. Deichert

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.05.005

Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , blood pressure , sleep (system call) , african american , sleep quality , nocturnal , demography , gerontology , white (mutation) , insomnia , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , computer science , operating system , biochemistry , ethnology , chemistry , gene , history

African Americans exhibit a smaller nocturnal decrease in blood pressure (BP) than whites, and there are also reports of poorer sleep quality among African Americans. We examined the contribution of sleep quality to ethnic differences in BP dipping in African American and white male and female college students. We hypothesized that African Americans would exhibit blunted nocturnal BP dipping compared to whites, which would be partly accounted for by poorer sleep quality among African Americans.

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