Too little sleep could cause serious damage to your kidneys, warns health study.
19:41, 5 NOV 2015 / UPDATED 19:43, 5 NOV 2015 / BY ANDREW GREGORY If you only get five hours or less your risk of renal failure goes up 65%, say experts – further proof of the benefits of a good night’s rest Stay healthy: It’s important to get a good night’s sleep Sleeping for five a hours or less significantly raises your risk of kidney failure, a study suggests. The dramatic findings from US researchers show how vital it is for your kidneys to get enough sleep. Experts at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, studied 4,000 people over a …
Snoring, apnea linked to diabetes risk in older adults
Health | Thu Oct 8, 2015 11:35am EDT BY MADELINE KENNEDY (Reuters Health) – Seniors with nighttime breathing issues like snoring or sleep apnea often have high blood sugar and may be almost twice as likely as sound sleepers to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Findings from some 6,000 U.S. adults who were followed for up to 10 years suggest that doctors may want to monitor blood sugar in older patients with sleep-disordered breathing, researchers say. “Recent evidence suggests that diabetes patients have a higher prevalence of sleep disturbances than the general population,” lead author Linn …
Disposable Micro-CPAP That Weighs Less Than One Ounce?
Published on May 19, 2015 Entrepreneur Stephen Marsh—who currently has more than 75 patents to his name—is the founder behind Airing LLC, a company that next month will seek funding for what it says is a disposable micro-CPAP device that weighs less than an ounce, fits in the nose, and has no cords or hoses. Airing says the device will address pervasive concerns about obstructive sleep apnea patients’ CPAP noncompliance. Airing’s design includes battery powered “micro-blower” technology that blows the amount of air pressure prescribed by the patient’s physician into the airway to effectively treat OSA. While conducting research in …
Goodnight. Sleep Clean.
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: Here is a great article about why sleep is SO important!! By MARIA KONNIKOVAJAN. 11, 2014 Credit Eiko Ojala SLEEP seems like a perfectly fine waste of time. Why would our bodies evolve to spend close to one-third of our lives completely out of it, when we could instead be doing something useful or exciting? Something that would, as an added bonus, be less likely to get us killed back when we were sleeping on the savanna? “Sleep is such a dangerous thing …
At-risk school bus drivers will undergo sleep studies.
Marion County school buses at the main bus barn in Ocala. File By Joe Callahan Staff writer Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:02 p.m. Marion County school bus drivers who are at risk of having sleep apnea will be required to undergo a sleep study at the School District’s expense. Apnea can cause people to become sleep deprived and therefore a hazard on the road. District officials want to make sure that drivers who may have the condition are screened and treated for safety reasons. The district entered into an …
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Published on August 31, 2015 In patients with PTSD, obstructive sleep apnea is linked with worsened symptoms, quality of life, and adherence and response to PAP, reports a study in CHEST. Among patients with PTSD over half (56.6%) were diagnosed with OSAS. Patients with PTSD+OSAS had lower QoL and more somnolence compared with the other groups. Patients with PTSD demonstrated significantly lower adherence and response to PAP therapy. Get the full story at: http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=2430456 …
Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome are common issues.
August 13, 2015 By Kenneth A. Kaplan, M.D. Snoring occurs when the flow of air through a narrowed upper airway causes the surrounding tissues to vibrate, creating noises of varying pitch and volume. In the case of simple snoring, which is noisy breathing during sleep without airway obstruction, multiple factors can potentially be at work in creating the noise. These include overall body mass/obesity, enlargement of the tonsils and adenoid, the presence of nasal congestion from rhinitis and/or septal deviation, and the prominence or bulkiness of the back of the tongue relative to the amount of space available for this …
Elevated Sleep Apnea Risk, Bruxism As Independent Risk Factors for First-onset TMD
July 26, 2015 / BY PETER BLAIS, RPSGT A study by Elizabeth Kornegay, RDH, BSDH, could help dentists better screen patients for potential obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and assess the need for patients to get a sleep test by including questions about bruxism in conversations about snoring. Kornegay’s study, “Elevated Risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Predicts Temporomandibular Disorder Independently of Sleep Bruxism and Awake Bruxism” earned her the AADSM Graduate Student Excellence Award. “My research contributes to the growing body of literature regarding an association between obstructive sleep apnea and chronic orofacial pain, such as temporomandibular disorders (TMD),” Kornegay says. “It …
New Gold Standard in Wearable Compliance Measurement Receives FDA Clearance
Dr. Norman Blumenstock will be offering this. Give the office a call to find out more information. Jun 24, 2015, 13:24 ET from BRAEBON Medical Corporation KANATA, Ontario, June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — BRAEBON Medical Corporation announces today that the DentiTrac® oral appliance compliance system has passed a substantial regulatory hurdle and is now FDA cleared in the USA for use with the SomnoDent oral device. BRAEBON congratulates SomnoMed for being the first company in the world to achieve this milestone. The DentiTrac® system has been developed by BRAEBON. It is a wearable micro-recorder and web cloud portal combination which …
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