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'Love hormone' oxytocin may be missing link between sleep apnea and high blood pressure

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Sleep apnea often comes with high blood pressure, which, in turn, contributes to the heart-health risks tied to both conditions.

Scientists have pinpointed two brain chemicals that play a role in this chain reaction.

Oxytocin and CRH are known to alter blood pressure but their effects after hypoxia were not fully understood.

Christoph Schwaiger is a freelance journalist.

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