KOMPAS.com – A study in Japan shows, frequent urination at night is a sign of hypertension.
Normally, a person can not urinate at all during sleep at night. But the urge to urinate occasionally at night is still considered normal.
Someone said to experience frequent urination when needing to wake up at night to urinate between two to eight times.
In the medical world, the condition of frequent urination at night is called nocturia.
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Studies of frequent urination and hypertension
Research presented at 83rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society in 2018, nocturia was related to hypertension and excessive salt intake
Launch Medical News Today, researchers from Japan’s Tohoku Rosai Hospital analyzed blood pressure and urinary frequency of 3,749 locals.
The data shows, respondents who wake up to urinate at night have a 40 percent higher chance of hypertension.
Research representative Dr. Mutsuo Harada said, the results of his team’s research conclusions were influenced by lifestyle factors including salt intake, ethnicity, and genetic background.
“The average salt intake in Japan is quite high. It can be up to 10 grams per day, or double the world average salt intake,” explained the researcher.
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According to Harada, his team’s research findings could be an additional cause of frequent urination at night, which was not previously associated with hypertension.
Hypertension is now afflicted by more than one billion people worldwide.
High blood pressure is also the main source of premature death because it triggers heart disease and stroke.
A healthy lifestyle, including limiting salt intake, not smoking, exercising a healthy diet, avoiding alcohol, and maintaining an ideal body weight can be ways to prevent hypertension.
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Frequent urination can be a symptom of what disease?
Outside of these conditions, frequent urination at night usually affects pregnant women or the elderly who have impaired urinary function.
In addition, frequent urination at night can also be a symptom of an illness.
Launch Cleveland Clinic, there are a number of underlying health problems that are common, namely:
- Diabetes
- Prostate problems
- Bladder obstruction
- Stroke
- Tumors in the pelvis
- Inflammation in the vagina
- Drug side effects and radiation
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Before you rush to diagnose yourself with an illness because you often urinate at night, you should first check the condition of the body.
Especially checking blood pressure, blood sugar levels, check whether excessive drink intake, caffeine consumption, and drugs.
If there are no specific underlying conditions and you suspect there are health problems associated with frequent urination, it is better to see a doctor immediately.
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