Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea among women on rise: Study
Yahoo!7 Pty Ltd October 21, 2014, 7:38 pm Sleep Apnea is now being detected in nearly as many Australian women as men. Emily Angwin reports.https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/25314697/undiagnosed-sleep-apnea-among-women-on-rise-study/ …
Why It’s Harder To Sleep As We Get Older
ERIN BRODWIN / OCT. 7, 2014, 2:33 PM She makes it look so easy. Sleeping helps us process memories, learn new skills, and stabilize our mood. Yet as we get older, a good night’s sleep becomes a rare commodity. Scientists have struggled for years to find out what makes sleep more elusive as we age. As it turns out, there are a number of factors that change how — and when — we sleep, from shifts in brain activity to a loss of special brain cells that tell us when it’s time to rest. And not getting enough shuteye, no matter our age, can …
The Best Sleep-Tracking Devices to Mind Your Z’s
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock How good are the personal tracking devices for sleep? The Wall Street Journal did a comparison of the available devices. “The sleep-cycle data you get from these are at best approximations,” said Lawrence J. Epstein, an instructor at the division of sleep medicine at the Harvard Medical School. “The information you get is most accurate in telling you how long you’ve slept and if you are following a good sleep pattern.” Can Collecting Data About How You Sleep Lead to a More Restful Night? By JOANNA STERN Updated Oct. 7, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET The …
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Data previously published in the American Journal of Epidemiology show that the estimated prevalence rates of obstructive sleep apnea have increased substantially over the last two decades, most likely due to the obesity epidemic. It is now estimated that 26 percent of adults between the ages of 30 and 70 years have sleep apnea. September 29, 2014 New studies highlight destructive nature of obstructive sleep apnea and benefits of continuous positive airway pressure therapy. Credit: AASM Public health and safety are threatened by the increasing prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea, which now afflicts at least 25 million adults in …
How to Use Data to Get Better Sleep
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock All sorts of fitness trackers and bed sensors say they quantify sleep. But once you collect data, what do you do next? PC Magazine reports. Published on September 29, 2014 All sorts of fitness trackers and bed sensors say they quantify sleep. But once you collect data, what do you do next? PC Magazine reports. Collect Additional Data to Correlate The problem is that knowing what times of night you tossed and turned, or how much time in bed you spent asleep or awake, isn’t enough information to guide you to make changes that will help you …
More Sleep, Less Medicine: Sleep Disorders Center Breaks Insomnia’s Grip
Joint program of Rutgers and RWJ University Hospital offers range of sleep studies and treatment options for patients of all agesBy Robin Warshaw Friday, September 12, 2014 Patients suffering from insomnia find relief through a joint program through Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. For more than 30 years, Donna* believed her chronic insomnia was something she and medical science couldn’t change. Most nights, she had difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. Her doctors prescribed various medicines that did little to help. Donna pushed her way through an ever-present blanket of fatigue to succeed in …
Can Sleep Apnea Predict a Heart Attack?
By Eric Cohen, MD Published Sep 8, 2014 Many of the patients I see who complain about sleep issues have some level of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In fact, as many one in five adults have at least a mild form of sleep apnea. People with obstructive sleep apnea are also more likely to have hypertension, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. Now, as a result of the latest research, when we test for sleep apnea we also examine and focus on the state of a person’s heart. The link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease has been studied for several years. In 2013 it …
Sleep Apps in the Spotlight
Another sign that sleep health is going more mainstream every day is the proliferation of smart phone applications (apps) being designed for the consumer market. Hayley Tsukayama, consumer technology beat reporter for The Washington Post, writes that there are “dozens” of sleep apps in Apple and Google’s app stores. Some offer meditation tips or even play soothing white noise. “Perhaps most intriguing of all, there’s also a whole class of apps devoted to sleep analysis,” she writes, “and apps that you leave up on your phone’s screen while you snooze that monitor your sleep based on your movements and the sounds …
Sleep Apnea Predisposes To Impaired Brain Blood Flow With Physical Activity
Notes from Dr. Norman BlumenstockMedicalresearch.com interviews Paul Macey, PhD, lead researcher on a study that provides evidence of sleep apnea hurting the brain Medical Research: Were any of the findings unexpected? Dr. Macey: We did not expect that breathing very hard into a small tube would lead to similar changes in brain blood flow in the sleep apnea and healthy people; we had expected the sleep apnea patients to show problems, as they did during the gripping and cold foot activities. We now believe the hand and foot activities need to use more higher brain areas, but that these areas …
5 Things You Can Do After Lunch to Improve Sleep Quality
Notes from Dr. Norman BlumenstockAfter-lunch strategies can improve sleep quality. If you incorporate these things during the day, it will improve your sleep quality at night. by Jamie Scott, of Whole9 South Pacific , who lives at 43 degrees south in New Zealand and wakes up to a light alarm.Last time we looked at the importance of sleep to overall health and touched on three pre-lunch strategies to help your body prepare for the coming night’s sleep. Today we’ll be talking about after-lunch strategies to improve sleep quality. If you incorporate these things during the day, it will improve your sleep quality at night. First, we …
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