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 …
Synchronizing Your Body Clocks May Help Shed Excess Weight and Prevent Insulin Resistance
June 18, 2015 http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=389596946&m=392014882 By Dr. Mercola If you struggle with excess weight, insulin resistance, and/or diabetes, getting more sleep may be of significant importance. According to recent research,1,2 poor sleep and/or lack of sleep can have a significant bearing on metabolic disorders such as these, and addressing your sleeping habits may be key for both the prevention and treatment of them. The answer as to why sleep is so important for normalizing your metabolism has to do with its effects on your body’s circadian clocks—and yes; you have a number of circadian clocks, not just one. As noted in …
Lower Life Satisfaction Linked to Sleep Problems During Midlife
Published on June 11, 2015 A study suggests that lower life satisfaction is linked to sleep problems during midlife. Respondents with higher life satisfaction reported shorter sleep onset latency (SOL). Sleep onset delay among those with low life satisfaction could be the result of worry and anxiety, as reported elsewhere. These findings support the idea that life satisfaction is interlinked with many measures of sleep and sleep quality, suggesting that improving one of these variables might result in improving the other. “These findings support the idea that life satisfaction is interlinked with many measures of sleep and sleep quality, suggesting …
Among College Freshmen, Sleep Disorders Risk May Predict Retention
Published on June 11, 2015 A study suggests that the risk for sleep disorders among college freshmen may be a predictor of retention and academic success. Results show that students at risk for a sleep disorder were more likely to leave the institution over the three-year period, although this association was weakened when covariates were included. Risk for sleep disorder also predicted grade point average (GPA) at the end of the first and second years. “A survey that screens for sleep disorders administered when students first enter college may identify a potentially modifiable risk factor for leaving before completing …
Partial Sleep Deprivation Linked to Biological Aging in Older Adults
Published on June 11, 2015 A study suggests that one night of partial sleep deprivation promotes biological aging in older adults. Results show that one night of partial sleep deprivation activates gene expression patterns in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) consistent with increasing accumulation of damage that initiates cell cycle arrest and increases susceptibility to senescence. These findings causally link sleep deprivation to the etiology of biological aging, and further supports the hypothesis that sleep deprivation may be associated with elevated disease risk because it promotes molecular processes involved in biological aging. “Our data support the hypothesis that one night …
Asthma Tied to Sleep Apnea
PHILADELPHIA — Patients with asthma were also more likely to develop obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported here. by Ed Susman Contributing Writer, MedPage Today PHILADELPHIA — Patients with asthma were also more likely to develop obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported here. Participants in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort who self-identified as having asthma at the start of the research in 1988 had a 41% incident obstructive sleep apnea rate, compared with an obstructive sleep apnea incident rate of 29% among participants who did not report asthma at the beginning of the study (P<0.001), said Mihaela Teodorescu, MD, of the University …
Do You Sleep Too Much?
People with hypersomnia regularly sleep soundly for more than nine hours a night, but rarely feel refreshed. Sleep is your friend – except when you have a medical condition that causes it to take over your life. By Anna Medaris Miller May 11, 2015 | 2:39 p.m. EDT + More One Friday night in August 2008, Jennie Murray went missing. Her mom had flown to Tempe, Arizona, where Murray was about to begin school at Arizona State University, but she never picked her mom up from the airport as planned. Throughout the night, Murray didn’t answer her phone. At noon the …
Sleep apnea common among patients undergoing heart procedure.
Illustration of obstruction of ventilation. Credit: Habib M’henni / public domain Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a coronary artery widening procedure used to treat heart disease, are at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to new research presented at the 2015 American Thoracic Society International Conference. “Our findings, in a large, multicenter sample of patients, reinforce the known association between OSA and cardiovascular disease,” said researcher Luciano Drager, MD, PhD, of the University of São Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil. “Nearly half of the patients in our study, who were treated with PCI for either myocardial …
How Kids’ Sleep Can Be Influenced by Digital Media.
Suren Ramasubbu 05/20/2015 3:56 pm EDT In 2014, the National Sleep Foundation found that most 15- to 17-year-olds routinely get seven hours or fewer hours of sleep, which is a good two hours less sleep than they need for a healthy life. The foundation also found that sleep quality was better among children who turned their digital devices off before bedtime than those who took their devices to bed. It would thus seem that there is a connection between screen time and sleep. Is this connection somatic (purely physical), psychosomatic (caused by the mind) or just mass hysteria brought …
Can Obesity Change Your Sense of Smell.
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: Obesity can affect the body in many ways including sleep apnea. …
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