Sleep Deprivation

The current average amount of sleep every night is about 6.8 hours, when in 1942, the average was 8 hours (Friedman). “Teens need about 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night to function best. Most teens do not get enough sleep.” (Teens and Sleep). One good thing that would be that all the negative parts of sleep deprivation would be an opposite of what would happen if a student were to sleep enough.

Not receiving a good-night’s sleep may lead to issues with short-term memory, concentration, depression, anxiety, irritability, poor energy, and sex drive (“Sleep: What's Going on Behind That Shut-Eye?”). Also, sleep deprivation may lead to somnambulism, or sleepwalking (Mahowald). According to Dr. Isador H. Coriat, M.D, “somnambulism is not sleep, but an abnormal mental state, distinct from the ordinary mental state.” Long-term effects of sleep deprivation may also include weight gain and high blood pressure ("Sleep and Sleep Disorders”). Not only does receiving proper amounts of sleep affect one’s health but the quality of sleep is as important.

Lack of sleep can affect your health in many ways. One being, physical. When you are sleep deprived it is very dangerous for you to drive or walk or anything. When you drive it takes focus but when you are tired you can swerve causing danger to yourself and those around you. Sleep deprivation can also cause three different kinds of health problems. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and many more health problems. Some might say the solution is to go to bed earlier except they don’t know one certain thing. Hypertension, people with a lot of stress, who stay up late can have elevated blood pressure, which can lead to a heart attack.

sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. It allows our body to rejuvenate and restore itself. It helps the body to create new cells. Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest causes of premature aging. Tiredness can significantly affect your mood and how you feel. Sleep can help lower blood pressure and elevated levels of stress hormones. Your cardiovascular system is constantly under pressure and sleep helps to reduce the levels of stress and inflammation in your body. High levels of "inflammatory markers" are linked to heart disease and strokes. Sleep can also help keep blood pressure and cholesterol levels (which

Waking the sleeper momentarily so that he can start to breath properly again. The pattern repeats itself throughout the night and the heart has to work harder creating a rise in blood pressure. Left unchecked, the stress sleep apnea will place on the heart and the increased blood pressure can lead to serious heart disease, stroke or even heart failure. Often sleep apnea sufferers are not aware that they wake up and go back to sleep.

Audience Relevance: Many of us are college students and young adults who are lacking sleep each night. It is not healthy to receive less than the amount we are supposed to each night. Each night, we are supposed to be getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep.

Sleep Apnea is a disorder in which one may have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while sleeping. It is a breathing disorder that is quite common amongst people with cardiovascular disease. Observational studies have demonstrated a correlation between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the risk of hypertension. There are factors that have been reported that show prevalence of an increase risk for sleep apnea, such as weight, age and gender. Most people who have sleep apnea are not aware of it because it only occurs during sleep. It can affect physiological events of the body, which in turn can influence ones blood pressure.

During night sleep, the mean of blood pressure have a decrease of 10-20% compared to the one in daytime. Sleep plays a main part of circadian blood pressure variations with lowest BP during slow-wave sleep (SWS) and relatively higher BP during light and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

Sleep deprivation leads to an increase in the rates for; diabetes, obesity, stress, stroke, heart disease and insomnia. The irritation from not being able to sleep can cause anger and depression, leading to unneeded relationship troubles and mental turmoil. Teens who didn't get enough sleep before they drove to school resulted in over 100,000 police reported crashes, with, (roughly) at least 3,000 potentially preventable deaths. For adults, sleep deprivation can attribute to problems getting work done or feeling motivation to do work, all throughout history it can be seen that a tired person is not able to do their job as well as someone who got their 8

Not getting enough oxygen may damage the lining of the blood vessel walls, which may make your blood vessels less effective in regulating your blood pressure. In addition, sleep apnea causes part of the nervous system to be overactive and release certain chemicals that increase blood pressure.

Most cases of sleep apnea are linked to stress, but the stress in sleep apnea can also lead to other medical problems such as an increased risk for cardiovascular consequences. It has been tested and proven that smoking and diabetes were also a large factor in the disorder of sleep apnea (Simiakakis M et al., 2012). Some studies have shown differences between cardiovascular disease and stress (Greenlund et al. 1995; Riese et al. 2000; Heslop et al. 2002a,b; Belkic et al. 2004). It is a terrifying fear to think that so many medical diseases can lead to the cause of a sleep disorder. It’s like most of the time with people one part of their body messes up, and it leads to something else. It’s an eye opener to realize that this sleep disorder can be caused by many health related problems, and not just stress.

Lack of enough sleep contributes to cardiovascular diseases; persons who take less time sleeping have a better chance of getting cardiovascular illness.

This study was an experimental one. Researchers modified the sleep of an experimental group and a control group. After two baseline nights of 8 hours in bed, it was then restricted to 4 hours per night for five nights, followed by three recovery nights of 8 hours, representing a busy workweek and a recovery weekend. The control group had 8 hours in bed throughout the experiment. Cardiovascular readings were taken for both groups. There were 15

Being well rested can mean a lot of good things come to your body but what happens when you aren’t well rested or maybe have too much sleep? Stress can affect a person’s sleep state by using the extra energy that must keep them awake at night. The more stress, the sleep a person will receive this can lead to a form of

During the light sleep stage the eyes stop moving completely and the heart rate and breathing rate decrease causing body temperatures to drop. During this stage the brain starts sending out k-complexes, which help by blocking out outside noises and are essential to entering the next stage (Borel, 2014). During deep sleep the brain produces oscillating electrical signals, these help the bodies muscles relax causing blood pressure to drop (Stickgold, 2015). Deep sleep is the stage in which the body goes through the most physical restorative phrase (Borel, 2014). During deep sleep tissue growth and repairing occurs, and the brain release growth hormones that helps develop muscles (Whats Happens, 2015). During deep sleep the body is in its most vulnerable state while the brain retains memories from throughout the day. Without sleep our brains could not process information and clear space for new memories (Stanley, 2015). The changes in the brain as it ages are associated with decrease in deep sleep, this creates a problem for the brain because it becomes harder to retain memory (Borel, 2014).