Therefore, no matter how your child sleeps at night — great sleeper or poor sleeper — his daily naps are critically important to release
the rising sleep pressure.
Not exact matches
The incidence of many illnesses, including diabetes and high blood
pressure, increases with lack of
sleep, and a growing amount of research suggests that poor
sleep may be a key factor in the
rising rates of obesity.
They control
sleeping and eating patterns, the
rise and fall of body temperature and blood
pressure, hormone release and many other important body processes.
Although pulse rates and average blood
pressure rose in both groups between baseline and the stress phase, in the recovery phase, individuals who had napped had considerably lower average blood
pressure readings compared to individuals who hadn't
slept.