出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：Objective: To clarify the relation between blood pressure and sleep quality in obese adolescents. Methods: The study was designed and performed as descriptive study. Sleep quality questionnaire, 24hr ambulatory systemic blood pressure monitoring and anthropometric measurements were performed in both study and control groups (age range 10-18, n=22). Demographic data, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and blood pressure measurements were compared. Results: No statistically meaningful association between blood pressure and sleep quality was found. Obese patients (n=30) had been found to have difficulty breathing in their sleep (p=0.001). There were no statistical differences between the obese and non-obese groups with their means of Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (p=0.059). Conclusions: On contrary to other studies we found that sleep quality does not affect blood pressure in obese adolescents. We concluded that obese adolescents have trouble breathing in their sleep.
