Drinking Less Trigger High Blood Pressure?

Water intake needs of each person is different, but generally doctors recommend drinking two liters or eight cups a day. A recent study found that people who drank less than two glasses of water a day are more likely to develop high blood pressure disease.

When high blood sugar levels but have not reached the level of diabetes, doctors consider it a condition of pre-diabetes. That is, the person at risk of developing the disease.

In a recent study, adults who drank half a liter of water or less than two glasses per day are more likely to develop blood sugar levels in the range of pre-diabetes, than people who drink more water. However, researchers also have concluded that the only drinking water can reduce the risk of diabetes.

Senior researcher Lise Bankers, from the French national research institute INSERM states, a hormone called vasopressin may be a missing piece (missing link) in the study.

Vasopressin-known as antidiuretic hormone, helps regulate the body's water retention. When we become dehydrated, vasopressin levels rise, causing the kidneys to conserve water. But research shows that higher levels of vasopressin can also increase blood sugar.

There is a vasopressin receptor in the liver, which also produces sugar in the body. Studies show that healthy people who received injections of vasopressin have blood sugar spikes.

"There are arguments to suggest that there may be real causal relationships that we found," said the banker, "but this is not proof," he told Reuters.

The findings are based on the 3615 French adults aged between 30-65, and have normal blood sugar levels in the beginning. Approximately 19 percent said they drank less than half a liter of water each day, while the rest drank up to one liter or more.

Over the next nine years, 565 participants had normal blood sugar, and 202 other people have type 2 diabetes.

Researchers see link between the risk of high blood pressure with the water intake level. They found that people who drank at least two glasses of water per day, 28 percent lower risk of high blood pressure than those who drank less than that amount.

Although she can not explain the cause-effect relationships, Bankers estimate that people who drink less water, more likely to drink sweetened beverages. This is what can lead to weight gain and blood sugar levels rise triggers.

But the study also does not explain other things, including eating habits healthy or less healthy. So further research is needed to find a correlation between these two things