Total Sleep Deprivation Elevates Blood Pressure Through Arterial Baroreflex Resetting: a Study with Microneurographic Technique

Abstract

The diastolic blood pressure increased and both burst rate and burst incidence of MSNA decreased after total sleep deprivation. The results show that resetting of the ABR toward a higher blood pressure level occurred after total sleep deprivation. This ABR resetting probably brings about an increase in arterial blood pressure after total sleep deprivation.