Binge Drinking May Make You Vulnerable to Dying in Your Sleep- Study.
March 15, 2016 | by: Marco Reina Needless to say, binge drinking is absolutely disastrous for health. We have heard it a gazillion times that drinking heavily over longer periods of time can have potentially detrimental effects on an individual’s physical, mental and overall well-being. Now a new research warns that binge drinking may kill drinkers in their sleep. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in US have warned that heavy consumption of alcohol increases a person’s chances of dying in sleep. “Alcohol abuse, binge drinking in particular, is thought to be a rite of passage for …
Snoring may cause cancer tumours to grow and spread.
By Western Daily Press | Posted: March 12, 2016 Snoring may cause cancer tumours to grow and spread Snoring may cause cancer tumours to grow and spread, a new study warned. People who suffer from sleep apnea have far worse cancer outcomes than those who sleep soundly. The condition occurs when the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, interrupting normal breathing by blocking the airways for 10 seconds or more. It is suggested this starves vital organs of oxygen, so the body releases a signal protein to form more blood vessels which feed tumours allowing them to …
2 Your Health Study connects sleep disorder with heart problems.
By Carolyn Murray | Published: January 12, 2016, 4:26 pm A new study examined whether people who suffer from sleep apnea were prone to develop heart problems down the line. The study The study looked at the two types of sleep apnea – obstructive and central. Researchers followed a group of elderly men for a period of six and a half years and found that most of the men who had central sleep apnea later developed heart arrhythmia, or atrial fibrillation. Dr. Reena Mehra, MD, MS of Cleveland Clinic was a lead investigator on the team that conducted the …
Here’s Why You Want to Sleep More in the Winter.
Men’s Fitness | December 29, 2015 (Photo: Corbis) Starting to miss some of your evening runs and outdoor boot camps yet? It’s officially winter and the shorter days and colder nights make it a real task to get out of bed in the morning, much less actually exercise. If you live in a place that experiences the true four seasons, you know how harsh that winter cold can be and how depressing it is when daylight is gone by the time you leave work (so forget trying to save that sweat session for the end of the day…) The changing weather conditions affect …
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: …
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 …
What My Father’s Death Taught Me About the Importance of Sleep
November 22, 2015 by Dr. Mark Burhenne If you could have told me in my thirties that my father would die of ALS at the age of 69, I never would have believed you. By all external measures, my dad was an extremely fit and healthy man. If anyone seemed like they could defy death, it was my dad. He was once one of the most celebrated radiologists in the United States. He taught at Harvard, wrote textbooks, and developed the Burhenne technique for removing gallstones. By all external measures, my dad was an extremely fit and healthy man. He …
8-Hour Sleepers More Likely to Be Heart Healthy
by Sara G. Miller, Staff Writer | November 12, 2015 02:44pm ET ORLANDO, Fla. — People who get at least 8 hours of sleep each night are more likely to have good heart health than those who get less sleep, a new study finds. In the study, researchers compared groups of people who slept for different average lengths of time, looking at how well each group met the seven criteria from the American Heart Association for “ideal” heart health. The researchers found that people who slept 8 or more hours a night were 2.7 times more likely to meet six or …
The Color Of Your Skin Could Influence How Much Sleep You Get
Discrimination and stress can take a toll on sleep. Erin Schumaker Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post Posted: 11/12/2015 09:15 AM EST | Edited: 11/13/2015 04:33 PM EST Black Americans fare worse than white Americans on nearly every metric of health, and dishearteningly, we have another disparity to add to the list: disordered sleep. Black Americans are five times more likely to suffer from short sleep duration than white Americans, meaning they slept for six hours or fewer each night, according to a study published in the journal Sleep in June. The study analyzed data from 6,000 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study …
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