leep apnea patients face higher pneumonia risk.
By: Emily Lunardo | Immune System, Sleep | Saturday, December 19, 2015 – 09:00 AM A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) found a link between sleep apnea and pneumonia. It discussed that those who suffer from sleep apnea are at a higher risk of pneumonia. Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder that affects approximately 18 million Americans, so you’re not alone. With sleep apnea, your breathing repeatedly starts and stops throughout the sleep cycle. The interruption in breathing can last seconds to minutes, and normal breathing usually resumes with a loud snort or choking sound. …
New Survey Explains the Importance of Sleep
Paula Davis-Laack | Posted: 12/02/2015 7:49 am EST Updated: 12/02/2015 8:59 am EST Are you a sleep worker? No, not a sleepwalker, but a person who goes to work and attempts to function on too little sleep? It turns out, one-third of American workers are sleep working — not getting enough sleep to function at peak levels, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School. On the home front, men and women experience interrupted sleep, but often for different reasons. Women are more than twice as likely to interrupt their sleep to care for others, and once they’re up, they are awake longer: …
Army report shows soldiers lack sleep, struggle to eat right.
By Michelle Tan, Staff writer | 9:54 a.m. EST December 13, 2015 (Photo: Army) Soldiers continue to struggle with eating healthy and getting enough sleep, according to the Army’s first Health of the Force report. The report, released Dec. 10 by the Army surgeon general’s office, gives leaders and commanders a snapshot of active-duty soldier health across 30 U.S.-based installations in 2014. It looked at injuries, behavioral health, chronic disease, obesity, tobacco use, sleep disorders, hospital admissions, and other health measures. Officials then created an overall Installation Health Index, rating each installation in the study. Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Benning, …
One Company’s Mission To Fix Our Sleep Deprivation Crisis.
The health insurance provider Aetna wants you to know the difference a good night’s rest makes. 12/14/2015 11:53 am ET Carolyn Gregoire Senior Health & Science Writer, The Huffington Post Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has made sleep health a major priority in the workplace. A whopping 40 percent of Americans are getting less than their recommended nightly sleep — an issue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes as a “public health problem.” But more people and corporations are increasingly waking up to the importance of a healthy night’s sleep. Leading the charge is the Hartford-based health insurance giant Aetna. Under …
Photoplethysmographic Signal to Screen Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients
Feasibility of a Prospective Clinical Pathway Sunil Sharma, MD∗; Paul Mather, MD∗; Jimmy T. Efird, PhD∗,†; Daron Kahn, MD∗; Mohammed Cheema, MD‡; Sharon Rubin, MD∗; Gordon Reeves, MD∗; Raphael Bonita, MD∗; Raymond Malloy, MS∗; David J. Whellan, MD∗ [+] Author Information JCHF. 2015;3(9):725-731. doi:10.1016/j.jchf.2015.04.015 Abstract Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the plethysmographic signal-derived oxygen desaturation index (ODI) as an inpatient screening strategy to identify sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Background SDB is highly prevalent among patients hospitalized with CHF but is widely underdiagnosed. We evaluated overnight photoplethysmography as a possible screening …
Ask Well: Do Sleeping Pills Induce Restorative Sleep?
By KAREN WEINTRAUB | DECEMBER 11, 2015 5:45 AM Credit Stuart Bradford Q Is sleep induced by a benzodiazepine counted as restorative sleep? Reader Question • 489 votes A Researchers hate to admit it, but they don’t know enough about sleep to answer this question. Their best guess, several experts said, is that sleep is sleep. Dr. John Weyl Winkelman, a sleep disorders expert at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said if a patient asked him whether medicated sleep was restorative, “I’d say: ‘You tell me.’” There is quite a bit of evidence about the negative health consequences of insomnia, but …
8 Sleepwalking Stories That Will Give You Nightmares
By PPcorn – Dec 5, 2015 huffingtonpost.com Sleepwalking is an uncommon but well-documented phenomenon that many people find comical. However, some sleepwalking stories are so strange that they might make you afraid of ever sleeping again. Here, we present eight sleepwalking stories that will give you nightmare. Check them out for yourself below. Number Eight: The Divorce. In 2006, one Muslim man was sleeping next to his wife when he said the words “talaq” three times. “Talaq” translates to “divorce,” and saying it three times may be official grounds for separation. Because of this, the couple was forced to separate. Number Seven: …
Is It Safe For Medical Residents To Work 30-Hour Shifts?
Updated December 10, 20153:17 PM ET | Originally published December 7, 20154:50 AM ET Lorenzo Gritti for NPR Since 2003, strict rules have limited how long medical residents can work without a break. The rules are supposed to minimize the risk that these doctors-in-training will make mistakes that threaten patients’ safety because of fatigue. But are these rules really the best for new doctors and their patients? There’s been intense debate over that and some say little data to resolve the question. So a group of researchers decided to follow thousands of medical residents at dozens of hospitals around the country. …
A Bad Night’s Sleep Might Do More Harm Than You Think
Updated December 10, 2015 6:31 PM ET NURITH AIZENMAN It’s 11 at night in a busy commercial section of Chennai, a city of nearly 5 million in Southern India. All around me people are sleeping in the open air. Men are curled up in the back of rickshaw wagons. Entire families camp out in shelters made of cardboard and tarp. A woman in a blue sari smiles and waves for me to come over. Jane Marlen von Rabenau, a research associate at the lab, displays sleep aids the team is testing on participants, including an eye mask, earplugs, a …
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