Published: Nov 5, 2013 | Updated: Nov 6, 2013 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonology/SleepDisorders/42734 Action Points Treating OSA modestly brought down some measures of resistant hypertension beyond what blood pressure medications could achieve alone. Note that the impact of CPAP on blood pressures in these patients with confirmed resistant […]
Penelope A. Bryant, PhD, Nigel Curtis, PhD Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013;32(10):1135-1137. Full Article (may require free registration): http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811670 You are more likely to catch a cold if you are tired: fact or fiction? There is in fact a surprisingly large body of evidence to support the widely held belief that sleep deprivation increases susceptibility […]
By Nicole Ostrow – Oct 22, 2013 9:45 AM CT Full Story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-21/poor-sleep-linked-to-alzheimer-s-in-study-of-brain-scans.html JAMA Neurology Abstract: http://archneur.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1757019 Sleeping poorly or not getting enough rest may result in a type of brain abnormality associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a study showed. Brain images of adults with an average age of 76 found that those who said they […]
Published: Oct 18, 2013 By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ACG/42368 Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Note that this cross-sectional study suggests that poor sleep-quality […]
Published: Oct 18, 2013 | Updated: Oct 21, 2013 By John Gever Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/SleepDisorders/42365 Action Points Sleep appears to have a critical function in ensuring metabolic homeostasis. The studies show that sleep is associated with a striking increase in convective exchange of cerebrospinal fluid with interstitial fluid and an increased rate of beta-amyloid clearance. […]
Diabetes Care 2013 Oct 07;[EPub Ahead of Print], NH Kim, NH Cho, CH Yun, SK Lee, DW Yoon, HJ Cho, JH Ahn, JA Seo, SG Kim, KM Choi, SH Baik, DS Choi, C Shin TAKE-HOME MESSAGE Does obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have an effect on glucose metabolism? A group of > 1300 individuals > 40 […]
IMNG Medical Media, 2013 Sep 23, MA Moon First-line treatment for adults with obstructive sleep apnea should be continuous positive airway pressure therapy or a mandibular advancement device, according to the American College of Physicians’ clinical practice guideline published online Sept. 24 in Annals of Internal Medicine. In contrast, no surgical procedures or pharmacologic agents […]
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Video: TED Talk; Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories […]
June 12, 2013 Obstructive sleep apnea may place adults at a greater risk for sudden cardiac death, researchers found. After adjustment for other risk factors, each 10% decrease in the lowest nocturnal oxygen saturation among adults undergoing a first-time polysomnogram for suspected sleep-disordered breathing was associated with a 14% greater risk of sudden cardiac death […]
Full Story: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120417080350.htm Apr. 17, 2012 — Can lack of sleep make you fat? A new paper which reviews the evidence from sleep restriction studies reveals that inadequate sleep is linked to obesity. The research, published in a special issue of the The American Journal of Human Biology, explores how lack of sleep can impact appetite regulation, impair […]
Jay Greenstein, DC, CCSP, CGFI-L1, CKTP, FMS Topics in Integrative Health Care 2012, Vol. 3(4) ID: 3.4004 Abstract Study Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore sleep habits and characteristics of patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) presenting at an outpatient, chiropractic clinic using the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Sleep Scale. Methods: Fifty-one patients […]