Poor sleep may bolster genetic susceptibility to asthma, potentially doubling risk

Poor quality sleep may bolster a person’s genetic susceptibility to asthma, potentially doubling their risk of being diagnosed with the condition, suggests a large UK Biobank study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. A healthy sleep pattern seems to be linked to a lower risk of asthma, prompting the researchers to suggest that spotting and treating sleep […]

Study shows link between naps and high blood pressure

Napping on a regular basis is associated with higher risks for high blood pressure and stroke, according to new research published in Hypertension, an American Heart Association Researchers in China examined whether frequent naps could be a potential causal risk factor for high blood pressure and/or stroke using data from UK Biobank, a large biomedical database and research resource containing anonymized […]