Open AccessAssociation of sleep duration with arterial blood pressure profile of Gujarati Indian adolescents
Author(s) -
Wasim A Shaikh,
Minal Patel,
Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.62571
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , gujarati , population , cross sectional study , pulse pressure , sleep (system call) , demography , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , environmental health , sociology , computer science , operating system
Recently, National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey-1 data analysis found short sleep duration as a risk factor for hypertension in the U.S. population. However, since ethnic differences exist in the aetiopathogenesis of diseases, the current study was undertaken to study the effect of sleep duration on the blood pressure profile of Gujarati Indian adolescents.