Usually between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., when most people are asleep, this is not a time when sudden death is likely to occur. What the elderly need to be alert to is the time from 6:00 am to 10:00 am, which is prone to sudden death.
Six o’clock in the morning to ten o’clock is a peak period of blood pressure, easy to rise blood pressure. The body’s heart rate is relatively slow during sleep, and after waking up, sympathetic nerve excitation, heart rate increases, and myocardial oxygen consumption increases.
The combined effect of the above factors, resulting in six to ten o’clock in the morning this time period, prone to acute myocardial infarction, stroke and other accidents. And the elderly due to most of their own basic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and thus in the morning from six to ten o’clock this time period is prone to sudden death.
Therefore, it is recommended that middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to the appropriate amount of water in the morning, and take antihypertensive drugs in a timely manner.