This was announced by a group such as Professor Chen Wao and Kenzo Matsumoto visiting researchers at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.

The group examined the relationship between the state of respiration during sleep and lifestyle-related diseases for seven and seven male and female men in their 30's to 80's who received health checks in Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture from five years ago to last year It was.

As a result, 866 people, which is about 12% of the total, had a relatively heavy "sleep apnea syndrome", of which men had a condition requiring treatment in one out of four. And in those with a relatively heavy "sleep apnea syndrome", the proportion of hypertension was 2.4 times higher than those who had no symptoms at all.

In relation to diabetes mellitus, association was not observed in men, but in the case of "sleep apnea syndrome" which is relatively heavy in females, the proportion of diabetes mellitus is 28 times before menopause, menopause It means that it was tripled later.

Professor Chen said, "I do not know detailed cause-effect relationships, but treatment of sleep apnea syndrome may lead to improvement of hypertension and diabetes. I'd like to recommend taking an examination of sleep apnea syndrome. "