For healthy adults, how much you usually sleep doesn’t seem to affect your blood pressure, heart rate, or stress nerve activity — even if you sleep less than average.

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Actigraphy-Based Sleep and Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans.

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2024 Aug 1

The study looked at how much people sleep and whether that affects their blood pressure, heart rate, and stress signals in the body. It found no strong link in healthy people, which supports the idea that sleep length alone doesn’t drive these health measures.

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Actigraphy-Based Sleep and Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans.

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DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00113.2024

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