Researchers looked at how a daytime nap impacts cardiovascular recovery after a stress test, and discovered that those individuals who slept for a minimum of 45 minutes in the daytime had lower
average blood pressure following psychological stress than individuals who didn't sleep.
Sleeping for about 60 minutes in the daytime could lower
average blood pressure following mental stress.
Not exact matches
None of the participants had high
blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer when they enrolled, but 37,123 people developed high
blood pressure during an
average follow - up of 12 - 16 years.
The study, which
followed 3,681 healthy European men and women age 60 or younger for about eight years, also found that above -
average sodium intake did not appear to up the risk of developing high
blood pressure (hypertension) or dying of a heart attack or stroke.
A 2014 study found that people who
followed the Paleo diet for two months lost an
average of 9 pounds and had healthier
blood pressure.
Another study, published in the European Heart Journal,
followed almost 20,000 Germans for 10 years and found that those who ate the most chocolate (an
average of 7.5 grams a day — or a little more than a quarter of an ounce) had lower
blood pressure and a 39 % lower risk of having a heart attack or stroke compared to those who ate the least amount of chocolate (1.7 grams a day).