Objective sleepiness without a subjective complaint decreases hypertension risk
Our novel and unexpected findings suggest that objective sleepiness without EDS has a protected effect against hypertension risk, a useful finding for practicing clinicians in assessing hypertension risk in their patients.
Authors
- Georgia Trakada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-1269)
- Nikolaos Athanasiou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1477-6243)
- Julio Fernández‐Mendoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9584-6161)
- Fan He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4145-9999)
- Alexandros N. Vgontzas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8323-7526)
- Yun Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6276-9104)
- Edward O. Bixler
- Slobodanka Pejovic
Institutions
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Shantou University (CN)
- Shantou University Mental Health Center (CN)
- Alexandra Hospital (GR)
- Shantou University Medical College (CN)
- Department of Public Health (MM)
- Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SLEEP
- Published
- 2025-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaf394
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and related disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00