Bronx Train Tragedy Continues to Resonate
Tragedy often sparks change, and last year’s Bronx train derailment may ultimately lead to more and better sleep disorder screening for New York transit employees. In addition, new procedures will make it harder for sleep deprived employees to allow trains to get back into service. According to Gannett’s news, Metro-North in the Bronx plans to ask the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in December to approve hiring a company to provide sleep apnea screening in a pilot program. The train conductor presiding over last year’s derailment (which killed four and injured dozens) had “severe sleep apnea.” Ken Valenti writes that the Federal …
Sleep Duration Affects Risk for Ulcerative Colitis
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Another important reason to get the right amount of quantity and quality of sleep Published on October 22, 2014 If you are not getting the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night, you may be at increased risk of developing ulcerative colitis. This is according to a new study1 in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. “Both short and long durations of sleep have important health implications and are associated with increased overall mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer,” says lead study author Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, …
NTSB: Engineer’s Sleepiness Caused Deadly Bronx Metro-North Train Derailment
October 28, 2014 5:35 PM NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Another stinging report was issued on the Metro-North Railroad Tuesday, concluding this time that a sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a Metro-North train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment that killed four people and injured more than 70 in the Bronx. As CBS 2’s Don Champion reported, the National Transportation Safety Board report also announced the findings into the investigation of four other Metro-North accidents that occurred in New York and Connecticut in 2013 and 2014, and concluded that the railroad blew off safety …
Snoring, heart disease and sudden death
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Despite CPAP good efficacy, it fails approximately 50% of the time due to lack of compliance. Philippine Daily Inquirer 4:08 AM | Saturday, October 25th, 2014 So now we know better. Snoring, as a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is definitely not a benign disorder which carries no serious implications. It is linked with the development of difficult-to-treat high blood pressure, heart enlargement, heart failure, diabetes, accidents due to daytime sleepiness, memory lapses, irregular heartbeat and even sudden cardiac death (SCD). Mayo Clinic researchers in the United States studied the sleep characteristics of close …
Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Atrial Fibrillation After Bypass Surgery
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:Adrian Baranchuk MD FACC FRCPCAssociate Professor of MedicineDirector, EP Training Program Queen’s UniversityKingston, Ontario, CanadaMedical Research: What are the main findings of the study? Dr. Baranchuk: In this study, we investigated whether obstructive sleep apnea increases the risk of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery. We found the risk to increase by approximately two-fold for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, suggesting that this disease is a strong predictor of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery. We also found that the risk increases in patients with more severe obstructive sleep apnea. This is an important association to …
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 …
13 Struggles Of Sleeping With A Snorer
Notes from Dr. Norman BlumenstockSleeping with a heavy snorer and just dealing with it is no way to live. Eh, sleep is overrated, anyway.posted on Aug. 22, 2014, at 7:29 p.m. 1. You will do everything you can to try and fall asleep before them. Sleeping pills, alcohol, going to bed an hour earlier, etc. You’ve tried it all in order to try to beat them to the punch. 2. But even if you do, their intense snoring will wake you up, anyway. They can’t be doing it on purpose, right? 3. Good luck falling asleep if they fall asleep first. It’s like …
Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy, Studies Suggest.
Notes from Dr. Norman BlumenstockObesity is a factor in developing sleep apnea. Let’s start early in a attempt to prevent our kids from developing this condition. By CATHERINE SAINT LOUISSEPT. 2, 2014 Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of nutritional studies published on Tuesday has found. Taken together, the data indicate that infant feeding patterns persist far longer than has been appreciated. “Our early taste preferences, particularly for fruits and vegetables, and on the flip side for sugary beverages, are lasting,” said Dr. Elsie M. Taveras, chief of the division of …
Too Much Sleep Can Cause Problems
Published on August 29, 2014 With sleep drunkenness in the news, ABC 7 reports on how getting too much sleep can contribute to the problem. For years medical professionals have warned of the hazards of not getting enough sleep. But getting too many Z’s may be responsible for you feeling dazed, disoriented and confused…and possibly perceived by others as a little drunk. “If you’re normally sleeping eight hours or so, then suddenly decide, ‘oh, I’m going to have a really nice weekend’ and you sleep eleven or twelve hours, you may wake up so groggy that you don’t really wake …
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