Is your snoring a health hazard? How to find out.
Kim Painter, 8:39 a.m. EDT April 26, 2015 A loud snorer can wake up a whole household without having a clue. “There’s always a certain level of denial,” says Kathleen Bennett, a Cincinnati dentist who specializes in treating sleep breathing problems. “People come in all the time and say, ‘I have no problem sleeping, but my wife is complaining.’ ” If that rings a bell, sleep experts say, it could be time for a chat with your doctor. You may have a case of physically harmless, if annoying, snoring — or your snoring could be a sign of a more serious …
To Sleep Better, Spend More Time in the Dark.
April 23, 2015 By Dr. Mercola Recent research1 reveals that you have more than one biological clock in your body. As it turns out, virtually every organ in your body has its own clock or circadian rhythm, and in order to keep them all in sync, you need to keep a regular waking and sleeping schedule that is linked to the rising and setting of the sun. When your sleep schedule is erratic, a cascade of effects can occur, raising your blood pressure, altering hunger hormones, and disrupting your blood sugar control, for example. Chronic sleep disruptions also promote metabolic …
Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Lower with CPAP.
Published on April 20, 2015 CPAP use was associated with a significant reduction in the recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to an analysis of data from past research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology. Researchers from the New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City performed a meta-analysis of seven studies including 1,087 patients to determine if CPAP reduced the recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients with OSA. The analysis found that CPAP use was associated with a 42% relative risk reduction in atrial fibrillation …
Do you snore on the train?
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: Do you snore on a train? Only 20% of passengers say they feel comfortable waking up a person snoring near them. A further 27% state they are too worried themselves to sit back and properly relax for fear of dozing off and starting to snore. 22 April 2015 at 6:33am 60% say snoring is most annoying thing on a trainPhoto: PA Rail passengers are being given nasal strips to stop them snoring on trains. Research for First Great Western has revealed it’s top of the list for annoying things passengers do on trains with 60% …
Heavy snoring and apnoea linked to earlier mental decline.
20 APRIL 2015 Treating sleep issues may delay mental decline in adults, researchers say. Heavy snorers and people with sleep apnoea may be more likely to develop memory and thinking problems at younger ages than their well-rested peers, a new study suggests. Treatment with CPAP may delay mental decline The good news from the study is that treating sleep apnoea with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine may delay mental decline. “Treatment may not cure the disease, but may delay the onset of memory problems,” said lead researcher Dr. Ricardo Osorio, a research assistant professor of psychiatry at New York …
Woman removed from plane for ‘stabbing’ snoring man with pen at Chicago airport
Lenny Madarski, 68, said it felt like being stung by bees. Photo: Michael Sutton LIZZIE DEARDEN / Saturday 18 April 2015 A plane was unable to take off in the US on Thursday when a man claimed he had been “stabbed” with a pen by a fellow passenger angry at his snoring. The Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago Midway airport to Manchester, New Hampshire, eventually left two hours later after the woman was removed. Footage from the plane showed it returning to departure gate, where several police officers boarded and fire engines and ambulances gathered outside. Lenny Madarski, 68, told ABC 7 …
Where and what is happening in your brain when you sleep?
Sleep has profound importance in our lives, such that we spend a considerable proportion of our time engaging in it. Sleep enables the body, including the brain, to recover metabolically, but contemporary research has been moving to focus on the active rather than recuperative role that sleep has on our brain and behaviour. Sleep is composed of several distinct stages. Two of these, slow-wave (or deep) and REM sleep, reflect very different patterns of brain activity, and have been related to different cognitive processes. Slow-wave sleep is characterised by synchronised activity of neurons in the neo-cortex firing at a slow …
In Resistant Hypertension, Sleep Apnea Results in Greater Blood Pressure and Treatment Lowers It.
Published on April 6, 2015 A new meta-analysis published in the Journal of Hypertension suggests that untreated sleep apnea may be a major factor in why medications appear to be less effective in reducing high blood pressure in some people. Further, the study shows that CPAP therapy may be the key to helping those with difficult to treat hypertension get their blood pressure under control. As many as 10 million people in the United States have “resistant hypertension” which either doesn’t respond to or requires multi-drug therapy. Most people with resistant hypertension also have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It’s a …
Kids Sleep Doctor: App That Improves Your Kid’s Sleep Better Than A Doctor
By Nida I Zamir on April 6, 2015 So parents are about to sigh with relief as a free app to improve children’s sleep has been launched by doctors at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London. The app, Kids Sleep Doctor, gives parents custom advice, based on the sleeping patterns of their children, like night terrors or teens staying up all night long. Paul Gringras, a professor of children’s sleep medicine at the hospital, said that the doctors only skim through a patient, seeing “only the tip of the iceberg” due to the “massive” waiting lists. That is why the hospital decided …
Sleep Apnea May Reduce Antidepressant Response, Increase Dementia Risk
Published on April 7, 2015 Studies suggest sleep apnea may have a strong influence on antidepressant response and increase the risk for mild cognitive impairment in older patients with major depressive disorder, reports Medscape. “This shows that clinicians should definitely screen for sleep apnea when patients are presenting with late-life depression,” lead author Lauren Waterman, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, told Medscape Medical News. …
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