Napping during the day significantly reduces blood pressure: On August 31, Dr Manolis Kallistratos from Greece published an interesting study in the poster area, which showed that napping lowers the body’s blood pressure and reduces the use of antihypertensive drugs. The researchers said that patients who are used to napping also use less antihypertensive drugs compared to those who do not have the habit of napping. Coffee consumption raises blood pressure and increases the risk of diabetes in patients with hypertension: On August 31, also in the Poster area, a professor from Italy announced the results of a long follow-up study that included 1,200 patients and, after 12 years of follow-up, found that heavy coffee consumption can increase the risk of cardiovascular death by up to four times, and that, according to the amount of coffee consumed The increase in cardiovascular risk was linear according to the amount of coffee consumed and was significantly associated with the development of hypertension. At the same time, coffee consumption can increase the risk of prediabetes in patients with hypertension. Prolonged television viewing increases the risk of fatal pulmonary embolism: Scholars from Japan found that watching 4-5 hours of television per day increased the risk of fatal pulmonary embolism by a factor of 1 compared to subjects who watched less than 2.5 hours. The results of the study came from 86,024 subjects with an average follow-up of 18.4. and the effect was more pronounced in people under 60 years of age.