Our results showed that insomnia is common in patients with essential hypertension and indicate an association between insomnia and gender, known duration of hypertension and number of hypertensive drugs taken. Untreated essential hypertension insomniacs were characterized by less pronounced nocturnal fall in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure compared with non-insomniacs.
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