My father has high blood pressure and has been suffering from insomnia recently. Is this condition likely to cause a stroke if it persists? (Nhu Quynh, Dong Nai)
Reply:
Your father has many risk factors for stroke.
First is age, the elderly are more likely to have a stroke than young people. Second, men often have a higher rate of stroke than women. Third, high blood pressure also leads to a high risk of stroke.
Insomnia does not directly cause stroke, but sleep disorders aggravate existing risk factors or create new ones, which can lead to stroke.
You need to have measures to control your blood pressure, along with appropriate solutions to improve sleep quality.
Insomnia in the elderly can be caused by anxiety and depression. Many studies have shown that the elderly are often at higher risk of anxiety disorders and depression than young people.
Insomnia can also be related to other diseases or problems in the body such as neurological diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, digestive diseases, urinary diseases, cardiovascular diseases... In this case, the patient needs to have a brain scan or combine ultrasound methods and other tests.
Currently, the method of measuring polysomnography, providing parameters based on the physiological sleep functions of the human body, contributes to the diagnosis of many neurological diseases that cause sleep disorders.
When measuring sleep polygraphy, through many different electrode channels installed in the correct compatible positions on the patient's body, the device can automatically collect complete parameters of brain electroencephalography, eye movements, heart rate, leg movements, breathing airflow, breathing movements, oxygen saturation... Thanks to that, the doctor can evaluate all aspects of sleep and find the cause of the patient's sleep disorder.
You should take your father to see a doctor, the doctor will find the cause and have a suitable treatment plan. He may prescribe medication for a short period to help him sleep better, recover and return to normal physiological state. Then treat related diseases, if any.
Dr. Le Van Tuan
Director of Neuroscience Center, Tam Anh General Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City
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