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Like a deep-sea diver, your consciousness descends through the stages of non-rapid eye movement toward the deepest and most restful fourth stage called slow-wave sleep.

The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

Like a deep-sea diver, your consciousness descends through the stages of non-rapid eye movement toward the deepest and most restful fourth stage called slow-wave sleep.

The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

Healthy young and middle-aged adults spend about 20 percent to 25 percent of their sleeping hours in the stages known as slow-wave sleep so called because of the brain waves associated with it.

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In the study, men with the lowest level of the deeper stages of slumber, known as slow-wave sleep, had an 80 percent higher chance of developing high blood pressure than men with the highest level of this restorative sleep.

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While the study found an association between slow-wave sleep and high blood pressure, it did not prove a cause-and-effect.

Poor sleep increases high blood pressure risk 2011

After the researchers took into account age, race, body mass index and other factors, the link between low slow-wave sleep and higher blood pressure held.

Poor sleep increases high blood pressure risk 2011

Multiple studies have shown that women generally have more slow-wave sleep, which is the deepest sleep.

A Sleep Battle of the Sexes Andrea Petersen 2011

In this study, the men averaged 11.2 percent of slow-wave sleep, she said.

Poor sleep increases high blood pressure risk 2011

Other studies have shown that slow-wave sleep is lower in older men than in women.

Poor sleep increases high blood pressure risk 2011

"Kids may have 40 percent slow-wave sleep 1/8of total sleep3/8," she said, but healthy adults, overall, may have only about 25 percent.

Poor sleep increases high blood pressure risk 2011