Pain after separation

People who suffer from problems for sleep in the long term after a divorce are at risk of an increase in blood pressure , suggests a study.

The research previous have linked the divorce with important health problems and even with the early death , but few studies have examined the reasons for this link.

The problems for sleep could be one of the causes, according to researchers from the University of Arizona .

 

Pain after separation

The study included 138 people who had been separated or divorced about 16 weeks. They reported on the quality of their dream during three visits to the laboratory for seven and a half months. During those visits, he also took his blood pressure .

The researchers did not observe a link between the problems of the dream and the blood pressure in the first visits of the participants. But there was a Delayed effect .

 

We observe changes in the blood pressure at rest associated with problems of dream three months before predicted increases in blood pressure in repose , Explain David Sbarra, co-author of the study and associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona .

When a person suffers from a divorce and have problems for sleep , which sharpens with the weather , the most probable is the risk to suffer an increase in blood pressure .

 

What we find is that if one has problems for sleep , until about 10 weeks after the separation do not seem to be associated with an increase in blood pressure , comments Sbarra .

But if the problem it is maintained by plus of 10 weeks There seems to be a effect harmful cumulative .

The study published in the magazine Health Psychology, associates only the problems forsleep with the divorce and one blood pressure higher, does not sustain that it is a direct causal relationship.

In the first months after a separation , the problems for sleep are quite normal and this is a process of adjustment that people can usually face well, said Sbarra .

The problems of the dream that persist for a extended time could mean something different, considers the researcher of the University of Arizona .

Maybe it means that people are potentially depressing , who are having trouble getting on with their lives, and those people in particular are the susceptible to the problems of Health , he adds.

If you are going through a divorce and you can not sleep It is important that you get help to prevent the problem become more serious .


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