Examining Mother-Reported Poor Sleep and Blood Pressure in Black/African American Mother-Child Dyads.
Rebecca Robbins, Ralph J DiClemente, Chidera Ejikeme and 2 others
PMID 33002922WHAT IT FOUND
In Black/African American mothers, nighttime awakenings were linked with stage 2 high blood pressure, not with elevated or stage 1 high blood pressure.
Mother high blood pressure was also linked with higher child blood pressure readings.
Key findings
01Nighttime awakenings were associated with stage 2 high blood pressure in fully adjusted models.
02Sleep reports did not differ significantly for elevated blood pressure or stage 1 high blood pressure.
03Mother elevated blood pressure and stage 1 high blood pressure were each associated with higher child systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings.
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What it does not show
Sleep was measured with one mother-reported item from the Beck Depression Inventory, not a comprehensive sleep assessment. The sleep item did not measure sleep duration or difficulty falling asleep. The sleep question compared current sleep with usual sleep without a definition, so a mother who normally sleeps poorly could still report sleep as usual. Child sleep was not measured. Partner data were not collected. The sample came from one urban area in the US Northeast, so results may not apply elsewhere. The study was observational and a secondary analysis, so it shows association, not cause.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that treating a mother's poor sleep will lower her or her child's blood pressure. The study was observational and found associations, mainly with stage 2 high blood pressure, not with elevated or stage 1 high blood pressure.