Sleep Management - News
Golfers with the nighttime breathing disorder obstructive sleep apnea can improve their scores by treating their problem, according to study findings presented this week at the CHEST 2009 meeting in San Diego, California. After a few months of using a night-time device that provides nasal positive airway pressure (NPAP) -- a treatment that has been shown effective for curbing sleep apnea -- a dozen golfers saw their average handicap fall significantly from 12.
Nearly 70 percent of adults in the US report having at least one day of insufficient rest or sleep per month, suggests a new survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For many, poor sleep is the norm.
Skimping on sleep, is unhealthy, but it doesn't make people fat, according to a new study. "We hoped we were going to find good evidence for that," Dr. Diane S. Lauderdale told Reuters Health, "because it was such an interesting, intriguing, novel idea, with some reasons to think biologically it made sense.
In a study from England, most babies who died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were sleeping with an adult or another child at the time. Many of these "co-sleeping" deaths occurred in a potentially hazardous environment, such as in a bed or a sofa shared with an adult who recently used drugs or alcohol, according to the report in the British Medical Journal.
Daytime sleepiness caused by the nighttime breathing disorder sleep apnea is nothing to yawn at. A new study from Canada hints that the risk of diabetes may be two to three times higher among people with severe sleep apnea who also suffer daytime sleepiness.
People with untreated sleep apnea may be less alert behind the wheel, and more vulnerable to the effects of sleep loss and alcohol, than healthy drivers, a study published Monday suggests. The findings, say researchers, suggest that people with the nighttime breathing disorder should be especially careful about avoiding alcohol and getting enough rest before hitting the road.
Recovering alcoholics sleep worse than people who have never had a drinking problem, and this difference persists after months or even years of abstinence, new research shows. These changes probably worsen the problems with mental function that result from long-term heavy drinking, Dr.
Older women may complain about their sleepless nights more than men do, but new research shows they're actually catching more Z's. Meanwhile, older men say their sleep is more restful than it really is. "Men completely, and much more than women, overestimate the quality of their sleep," Dr.
Losing weight does help relieve sleep apnea in people who are obese, a new study shows. More than 12 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a condition in which people stop breathing during periods of deep sleep, which is often associated with being overweight or obese.
A study in mice suggests lack of sleep may play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. The findings, reported in the journal Science, are some of the first to link sleep with the development of Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia.
While UK drivers with sleep apnea are required to inform the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) of their diagnosis, they often fail to do so, according to research released at the 2009 European Respiratory Society annual congress.
If you're one of those parents who likes to let their kids run themselves ragged so they fall asleep more easily, you may be onto something: the more activity kids get, the faster they'll drop off to sleep, according to a new study.
Gabapentin, a drug used to treat seizures, improves the quality of sleep in menopausal women bothered by hot flashes, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in the Journal of Women's Health. Approximately 40 percent of menopausal women have trouble sleeping.
How could something that feels so good - a long night's sleep - have negative consequences? Unfortunately, that is one possibility that results of a new study suggest: Older adults who sleep nine or more hours each day may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those who spend fewer hours in bed.
Just because they're sick doesn't mean that children with chronic illness will sleep peacefully through the night, new research from Norway shows. Children with sleep problems often don't outgrow them, and these problems may be particularly persistent in kids with chronic illness, Dr.
Children who were born at a relatively small size may be more likely than their peers to have sleep difficulties, a new study suggests. The study, which included 289 8-year-olds born healthy and full-term, found that the lower the children's weight and length at birth, the greater their odds of having poor sleep or sleep disturbances such as sleep-related breathing problems or nightmares.
Severe breathing disorders during sleep, such as sleep apnea, can kill, a study in more than 6,000 people shows. Men 40 to 70 years old with severe sleep-disordered breathing were twice as likely to die over an eight-year period as their peers without the condition, Dr.
An inadequate amount of nightly sleep on a recurring basis, coupled with a sedentary lifestyle and overeating, may fuel the development of diabetes, results of a new study hint. "Our findings suggest that combining the unhealthy aspects of the Westernized lifestyle with insufficient sleep may add to the risk of overweight and sedentary individuals to develop diabetes," Dr.
Children have an increased risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea if they have a sibling who has the sleep disorder, new research published in the journal SLEEP shows. Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, occurs when airway passages become blocked during sleep, cutting off breathing for brief but frequent periods.
In children with sleep-related breathing disorders, removing the tonsils and adenoids -- an operation called adenotonsillectomy -- is apt to yield long-lasting improvements in sleep and behavior, doctors from Kansas City report.
Poor sleep after childbirth appears to be increase the risk of postpartum depression, according to findings published in the journal Sleep. "Postpartum women sleep less during the early weeks following delivery than during pregnancy and other periods of reproductive age," Dr.
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with behavior problems in children with asthma, researchers have found. "Studies have linked asthma symptoms with both childhood behavior problems and troubled sleep," according to the study team, and there is "growing, but limited, evidence that children with SDB may have worse behavior.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office has issued subpoenas for medical files from several doctors who treated Michael Jackson, whose sudden death two weeks ago remains shrouded in mystery, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
Patients who undergo weight loss surgery should not expect it to cure the nighttime breathing disorder known as obstructive sleep apnea, according to a paper in the June issue of The American Journal of Medicine. Dr. David L.
Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report. Both being overweight and wetting the bed are associated with the nighttime breathing disorder, they found. However, overweight and bedwetting are not associated with each other.
There is a statistically significant association between type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during REM sleep, results of a study indicate. In comments to Reuters Health, principal investigator Dr. Kamran Mahmood said, "Type 2 diabetes is a multifactorial disorder.
People with asthma who use steroid inhalers are at increased risk for obstructive sleep apnea, new research shows. Obstructive sleep apnea is a common problem in which tissues in the back of the throat collapse during sleep causing temporary blockages and interruptions in breathing.
Moderate-to-severe sleep disordered breathing raises the risk of clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias in men age 65 and older, with or without heart disease, investigators report in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Although small studies from specialized centers suggest that sleep disorders may play a role in arrhythmias (irregular heart beat), uncertainty remains about the implications of this condition on healthy, community-living older men.
Not all children between the ages of 4 and 5 years old take daytime naps, and those who don't tend to exhibit worse psychosocial function. That's the conclusion of researchers who presented their research this week in Seattle at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
The rate at which sleep disorders are diagnosed in infants, children, and adolescents is well below prevalence reported in epidemiological studies, indicating that these conditions are not being recognized by primary care pediatricians, investigators reported this week at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
