Researchers from the UK, Netherdlands and Sweden showed that insomnia can be a risk factor for the risk of aneurysm. Revealing the dangerous consequences of insomnia The article is published in Journal of the American Heart Association.
Specialists from the Imperial College of London, the Caroline Institute and the Utrecht University decided to identify the risk factors associated with the aneurysms – the curvature of vessels in the brain. They are formed more than three percent of adults. 2.5 percent of this number is broken, causing often deadly hemorrhages in the brain. Scientists analyzed the data on almost 6.3 thousand cases of intracranial aneurysms and 4.2 thousand cases of subarachnoid hemorrhages.
It turned out that the genetic predisposition to insomnia is associated with an increase in the risk of intracranial aneurysms and hemorrhages by 24 percent. Three times the risk was higher in smokers. To the same growth led to an increase in blood pressure for ten millimeters of mercury pillar. “The relationship between insomnia and intracranial aneurysmamma was not previously revealed, and these discoveries require confirmation of further research,” said one of the authors of the work, Associate Professor of the Caroline Institute of Susanna Larsen.