Sleep apnea could immediately compromise blood pressure, study finds
March 3, 2017 | Knowridge.com A single bout of sleep apnea impacts the human body’s ability to regulate blood pressure. In a recent study measuring the impact of simulated sleep apnea on humans, researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus found that just six hours of the fluctuating oxygen levels associated with sleep apnea can begin to deteriorate a person’s circulatory system. Sleep apnea is a condition where breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. The condition can result in frequent periods of decreased oxygen levels in the body, known as intermittent hypoxia. “While it is well established that sleep apnea is …
Expert Help On How To Manage Insomnia
MAR 10 2014, 10:40 AM ET | MARIA SHRIVER | NBCNews.com Juggling life’s daily challenges can be stressful enough without the added torment of not being able to get a good night’s sleep. Kelly Baron PhD, MPH, is an Instructor of Neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and the founder of its Behavioral Sleep Medicine training program, which was accredited by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. Here, she shares her expert guidance on how to manage insomnia. Every person knows the frustration of a poor night’s sleep. Although nearly everyone experiences temporary sleep problems during times …
Can’t Sleep? New Study Says Try Therapy, Not Pills
MAY 3 2016, 2:15 AM ET | by MAGGIE FOX | NBCNews.com People with insomnia should try counseling before they turn to pills, which often carry dangerous side-effects, a doctors’ group advised Monday. Specialized counseling can and does work, even if people don’t like doing it and even if doctors often don’t know how to do it, the American College of Physicians said in new guidelines on insomnia. “The evidence is quite strong that cognitive behavioral therapy is effective. It works. It’s long-lasting and it has the potential to decrease cost to the health care system,” Dr. Wayne Riley, president …
George Clooney kicked out of bedroom by Amal as actor ‘snores like a monster’
April 12, 2017 20:25 SGT | By Simi John | IBTimes.sg American actor and filmmaker George Clooney’s wife, Amal Clooney is reportedly upset of his sleeping habits. The two are reportedly sleeping in separate beds. A source told Radar Online: “He snores like a monster, especially after a few tequilas, while she’s up every hour virtually needing to use the bathroom.” Amal “has zero libido right now and they both need their sleep. She booted him out and he didn’t complain either as neither of them have been getting any sleep.” However, the couple reportedly reunite “in the mornings for …
Is Your Sleep Tracking App Keeping You Up All Night?
MAR 2 2017, 3:36 AM ET | by JOAN RAYMOND | NBCNews.com It’s bad enough that our fitness devices and apps act as biological overlords, making us feel inadequate during the day. But it seems that some of us can’t even catch a break at night. Apparently some of us get so worked up about our sleep apps and devices telling us we’re sleep failures that we wind up anxious and stressed, potentially causing even lousier sleep, according to a new case series published in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. They cite the case of …
Woman Finds Out Just How Deadly Snoring Can Be
March 3, 2017 | by Zara Zhi | AmericaNow.com Think snoring is harmless? Think again. One woman thought little of her boyfriend loudly snoring — until she turned on the lights and was shocked to see that his face had turned purple. Lisa Lee, 25, was so frustrated with her boyfriend Lewis Little’s snoring that she kicked him out of bed. Later, she would come to regret her decision when she found out he had a rare disease that caused him to snore. In 2016, Little was diagnosed with Brugada syndrome, a rare heart condition that can cause arrhythmia, palpitations …
How to stop snoring
Mar 2, 2017 | DailyJournalOnline.com Some 37 million Americans snore, making grunting, whistling, choking, snorting and/or chain sawlike sounds on a regular basis, according to the National Sleep Foundation. The bothersome noises occur when the airway narrows or is partly blocked during sleep, often thanks to nasal congestion, floppy tissue, alcohol or enlarged tonsils, explains Consumer Reports. Your snoring can not only ruin your partner’s shut-eye but also is a red flag for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA is marked by noisy stops and starts in breathing during sleep, and hikes risks of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia and hypertension. …
CPAP May Improve PTSD in Veterans With Sleep Apnea
February 24, 2017 | Laura Stiles, Assistant Editor | PsychiatryAdvisor.com Researchers have found that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms improved in veterans with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who were treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Ali A. El-Solh, MD, MPH, from the VA Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo, New York and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study that included 47 veterans with PTSD and OSA. The following tests were administered at baseline and at 3 months after CPAP therapy: the Epworth Sleepiness Scale …
Sleep on it
New study links habitual sleep deprivation to dampened immune responses Alan Brazelton | Feb 27, 2017 | DailyUW.com Many college students put off sleeping properly. An average student needs about eight hours of sleep, but most college students really only sleep about six to seven hours on average, including those weekend sleep-ins. Midterms, studying, papers, and hanging out with friends tend to take precedence. However, a new study by UW researchers, “Transcriptional Signatures of Sleep Duration Discordance in Monozygotic Twins,” published in the scientific journal Sleep shows that going without proper levels of sleep for an extended period does more …
Costs for treating insomnia reach $62 billion worldwide
By Sandra Block / Kiplinger’s Personal Finance / Published Feb 23, 2017 at 08:06PM Americans have rung up a massive sleep debt, and the bill is coming due. More than one-third of adults get less than seven hours of sleep on a regular basis, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Lack of sleep affects job performance, relationships and the ability to perform routine tasks. Inadequate sleep has also been associated with a long list of health problems, from obesity to dementia. Driving after less than five hours of sleep is as risky as driving when you’re drunk, according to …
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