{"id":245443,"date":"2026-10-15T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-investigated-people-with-insomnia-a-health-risk-pattern-emerged"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:13:22","slug":"scientists-investigated-people-with-insomnia-a-health-risk-pattern-emerged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-investigated-people-with-insomnia-a-health-risk-pattern-emerged","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Investigated People With Insomnia. A Health Risk Pattern Emerged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-investigated-people-with-insomnia-a-health-risk-pattern-emerged.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified that across several studies, with more than 1.3 million participants involved, those with insomnia had a 26 percent higher risk of having a stroke. They also found that those people were 28 percent more likely to be hospitalized for any admission reason. Other conditions associated with insomnia included dementia, depression, and suicidal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the association between insomnia and stroke, while research has not yet determined a causal link, Muench said that some theories point toward blood pressure as the potential reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople with insomnia are more likely to develop high blood pressure, but this may be because insomnia and high blood pressure often share the same risk factors, such as stress and lifestyle factors,\u201d she said. \u201cHigh blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke that people can seek treatment for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers identified that across several studies, with more than 1.3 million participants involved, those with insomnia had a 26 percent higher risk of having a stroke. They also found that those people were 28 percent more likely to be hospitalized for any admission reason. Other conditions associated with insomnia included dementia, depression, and suicidal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}