Human Sleep and Inflammatory Systems Laboratory

Has your doctor told you that your blood pressure is too high?

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is looking for participants (25-65 years) for a study which investigates whether changes to your sleep pattern can lower your blood pressure.

What’s involved?

6-8 weeks of at home evaluation phase
8-week at home behavioral intervention (you can stay on your medications)
Three overnight in-hospital stays before and after intervention
Sleep and blood pressure recordings during the stay
2 blood draws during each overnight in-hospital stay

What do you get?

Payment of up to $1,050 for study participation
Learn heathy sleep habits
Personalized sleep health habit summary

For more information:

Call the Sleep & Inflammatory Systems Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: (617) 667-5243
Or email Sleeptime@BIDMC.Harvard.edu

Or please complete the following screening survey

https://redcap.bidmc.harvard.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=JDPJEA7A73

The Human Sleep and Inflammatory Systems Laboratory at the BIDMC is an international leader in conducting research on the biological basis for the effects of sleep disturbance and deficiency. We utilize intensive physiological monitoring and testing in experimental models of repeated sleep restriction/disturbance and recovery, sleep extension, and naturalistic observation in both healthy adults and patient populations including insomnia and hypertension.

Inflammation and immune function are a core aspect of this work to more directly string together the relationships among subjective experience (e.g. pain, stress), physiological systems (e.g. autonomic regulation vis-à-vis blood pressure and heart rate dynamics), sleep patterns and physiology (e.g. electroencephalography, EEG), and disease risk (e.g. cardiovascular disease). Pain is a particular focus of our research, given the well-known bidirectional relationships between pain, sleep, and quality of life.

Mechanisms underlying the blood pressure lowering effect of sleep extension