Why is blood pressure higher in the morning than in the evening?

For many patients, high blood pressure in the morning becomes a habitual state, so they do not try to fight it. In fact, this condition requires urgent elimination and clarification of the causes that caused it. The etiology of such a pathological process can be quite detailed, so not every pharmacy drug can cope with the symptoms of the disease. Reckless self-treatment can even cause irreparable damage to health, aggravating the clinical picture of high blood pressure.

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High blood pressure in the morning can increase regardless of the gender of the person, his age, and the characteristics of his professional activity. With the same frequency, it increases in men and adults, less often in children and adolescents.

There are causes of morning high blood pressure that are characteristic of any person, as well as those that are associated with individual characteristics.

It is important not to confuse the minimal deviations from the norm of this important diagnostic indicator with a serious pathology.

It is enough to simply highlight the causes of high blood pressure in the morning in the doctor’s clinical practice, which are similar for all categories of people:

• Stress in its chronic manifestation becomes a notorious companion of high blood pressure in the morning. Nature is arranged in such a way that during sleep the brain is offline, so that the human consciousness is turned off. The first minutes of awakening are usually accompanied by the return of brain activity and recognition of surrounding objects and people. An overexcited nervous system almost never rests. Emotional experiences cause the release of stress hormones, so that even during sleep a person cannot relax. Night rest does not bring with it an increase in pressure, but awakening, on the contrary. Constant hypertonicity, together with morning awakening, causes high blood pressure in the morning.

• Another clear cause of high blood pressure in the morning is a large meal before bedtime. A late dinner with a predominance of fatty foods also deprives a person of a good rest, which is daily necessary for the normal functioning of the whole organism. While a person is sleeping, digestion is actively going on in his body, followed by many other biochemical reactions that will contribute to an increase in pressure in the morning. Heavy snacking at night also forms a fertile ground for mental disorders, nightmares and restless sleep.
• Uncomfortable body position during sleep can also mediate morning high blood pressure. Inconvenience during sleep can create a bed that is too soft or hard, sleeping in cramped quarters, fear of falling from the top shelf on a train or other high place. Episodes of pressure increase in such cases are rare and do not require a complex therapeutic program.
• Research by modern scientists has revealed the dependence of high blood pressure in the morning on the high content of salt in food. Foods with excess salt should be present in the diet for several months or years. The ions of various metals contained in the salt adversely affect the functionality of the vessels: they lose their elasticity and the ability to withstand pressure above normal.

• A high dose of alcohol, taken just before bedtime or that made you want to sleep, can also cause high blood pressure. This is also the case with smoking: a high dose of nicotine taken before bedtime causes persistent vasospasm, tantamount to the effects of chronic stress. Many articles and scientific papers have been written about the dangers of alcohol and nicotine addiction, reflecting their irreversible harm to health. The disappearance of these bad habits from the life of every person will allow you not to face the problem of pressure above normal in the morning.

An increase in one of the blood pressure indicators

The systolic pressure indicator is the first to react to pathologies in the cardiovascular system. It reflects the functional state of the heart, as well as the level of vascular resistance.

First of all, the sedentary lifestyle habitual for a modern person negatively affects the state of health. Lack of physical activity in a person's daily life not only creates the prerequisites for obesity and overweight, but also makes all organ systems weak and vulnerable to the harmful effects of the external environment.

Regular training not only forms a beautiful muscle relief, but also:

• regulate all metabolic processes in the human body,
• trains the heart vascular system,
• hormonal balance returns to normal,
• adaptive ability to respond to stress.

In case of failures in blood pressure, a trained body is able to adapt and eliminate them on its own, so that a person will not feel pathology.

Systolic blood pressure tends to increase with age. This fact is no longer refuted by scientists, and after 50 years, almost everyone suffers from high blood pressure or independent and hypertension. By this age, the vessels are significantly weakened, the reasons for which lie in the atherosclerotic lesion. Cholesterol plaques begin to form on the walls of blood vessels with the beginning of a person's life, which in old age leads to a loss of their elasticity and thinning of the walls. The deposition of a fat-like substrate invariably narrows the lumen of the vessels, which is fraught with ischemic conditions of the heart and brain. Problems with the heart and pressure on the background of atherosclerosis are exacerbated in the morning, when the compensatory forces do not yet have time to turn on at full capacity. In the evening, systolic blood pressure tends to normal, although exceptions and pressure surges are possible regardless of the time of day.

In both sexes, pathologies from the side can be observed:

• thyroid gland,
• adrenal,
• higher regulatory centers of the brain.

The pressure in the morning can jump due to an excess of certain hormones or due to the insufficiency of some of them.

Diastolic pressure in the morning rarely rises in isolation. This usually indicates a pathology from the vessels of a hereditary or congenital nature. Genetic weakness of blood vessels or anomalies in their development form a weak resistance to blood flow, which forms a high value of the diastolic index.

Recent studies have found that low diastolic blood pressure in the morning is observed in athletes who abruptly stop training or cut their usual training schedule. With a constant load, the heart gets used to a certain mode of operation. When the load on the heart decreases, it seems to require the same volume of functions performed, which is manifested by a decrease in diastolic pressure in the early hours of wakefulness. If there is a need to cancel sports, then the load should be reduced gradually in order to avoid problems with the heart and blood vessels.

Blood pressure in the morning can be steadily low. The causes of this pathology are the formation of blood clots most often. At some stage, they partially block the blood flow, after which the most important biological fluid slowly flows to various organs and forms a low pressure. In the morning, this condition is aggravated by the absence of certain hormones, which are produced later according to biorhythms.

These conditions do not depend on age, and even very young persons may suffer from endocrine hypotension in the morning, which gradually becomes permanent.

A combined decrease in both indicators of blood pressure occurs with various pathologies of internal organs and entire systems. Most often, the pressure decreases with insufficient work of the kidneys, thyroid gland, violations of the blood composition.

Any deviations above or below the established norm for blood pressure for each person are relative. A decrease or increase in blood pressure in the morning is the first and very important diagnostic sign of problems with the cardiovascular system. Regardless of the specific cause of abnormal morning pressure, you must urgently consult a doctor, otherwise blood pressure will increase not only in the morning. Only a comprehensive examination by a qualified specialist will reveal the exact etiology of high blood pressure and find the specific organ responsible for this for the correct therapeutic effect.

High blood pressure by gender

The gender of a person is of no small importance in the formation of a diagnosis of arterial hypertension with an exacerbation in the morning. Pressure above the norm with the same frequency occurs in men and women, but the causes of pressure surges for each sex are different.

Women, as refined creatures of nature, have more reasons for increasing pressure. Morning for them is accompanied by the production of certain hormones, causing the pressure to rise or fall.

High blood pressure above normal can occur in women in the following cases:

1. Against the background of oral contraceptives. Of course, these drugs represent the most important achievement of medicine, but the side effects from them cannot be reduced to zero. Contraceptives in some cases contribute to blood clotting, which is why pressure rises. A new morning pill can cause a sharp jump in pressure.
2. Women are more likely to get sick in the genitourinary organs. These pathological processes often involve the kidneys, which are the main regulators of blood pressure. The renal vessel narrowed by the infectious process perceives such a state as hypotension, which is why substances that increase pressure are produced. The peak of their production falls on the early hours of wakefulness.
3. Women are also more emotionally sensitive. Any stressful situation is perceived by a woman more sharply, which is why the pressure is above the norm in the beautiful half of the population is detected more often. Female-specific hormones can also act as stressors, making the condition worse.

In men, the pressure rises with almost the same frequency.

Truly masculine reasons why blood pressure jumps are:

1. Despite the spread of female alcoholism, such an addiction in men most often acts as the main provocateur of pressure above the norm. Daily use of large doses of alcohol in the evening or before going to bed simply depletes the vessels: they become brittle and thin. For such patients, antihypertensive therapy is prescribed for life, and complications of the underlying disease are often irreversible. Women began to smoke more, but heavy smokers among men can be found more often. This addiction affects all the most important organs of a man, so that the pressure above the norm is not the only consequence of smoking cigarettes.
2. Malnutrition among men is more common, especially among diplomatic and responsible workers. Quick snacks replace full meals, which is why the whole metabolism is upset. Plentiful evening meals in combination with beer or stronger drinks are the moments after which the next morning the head hurts and the pressure rises.
3. Men are considered to be more stress-resistant. But not all of them have unshakable hardening and fortitude, which allow them to withstand powerful emotional influences at work, in the family and in other areas. Stress can also provoke morning arterial hypertension in men, after which the whole working day is upset.

Thus, pressure above the norm occurs against the background of a combination of reasons. Only a careful attitude to your health will not allow you to miss important symptoms, after which serious diseases can develop with irreversible consequences for many organs and the body as a whole. A healthy lifestyle, sports that correspond to the level of physical fitness, rational nutrition are the best prevention of diseases caused by poor ecology, burdened by heredity, somatic pathologies and developmental anomalies. Even pressure above the norm will not torment a person in the morning after intense emotional stress and other stressful situations , as the body will independently eliminate this negative impact.