Given previously reported associations between sleep quality and both trait rumination [ 51] and ambulatory BP monitoring [ 47– 49], it is possible that trait rumination might impact BP dipping through sleep disruption associated with activation of an ambulatory BP monitor.
People whose blood pressure does not dip during sleep are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, according to Julianne Holt-Lunstad, the lead author and an assistant professor of psychology at Brigham Young University.
But soon she falls into a deep sleep, dipping into dreams tangled with white orange blossoms and zigzagging Moorish tiles.
Blunted blood pressure (BP) dipping during nighttime sleep has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events.
In our work, patients with dipping status, longer sleep duration, and lower HR presented more unperceived hypoglycemia.
Spend a day with stress and spend your waking and sleeping hours dipping in sharp chest pains, shortness of breath, preoccupation, headaches, and exhaustion.
In a sample of young women, high trait rumination was associated with less DBP dipping, suggesting that it may be associated with prolonged cardiovascular activation that extends into nighttime sleep, blunting BP dipping.
Results were concordant since patients with a nondipping blood pressure pattern had shorter sleep duration but longer sleep latency and lower sleep efficiency than patients with a dipping blood pressure pattern.
Similarly, while the association between rumination and BP recovery during nighttime sleep (i.e., dipping) supports our hypothesis and extends previous findings of associations between rumination and delayed BP recovery in the lab in response to mental stress, a thorough assessment of negative affect (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger, etc).
This activation may extend into nighttime sleep and reduce BP dipping.
