Sleep disorders and heart disease: Complicated relationship needs more research.
Cardiology Today, February 2016 In recent years, strong evidence has emerged linking sleep disorders to various forms of heart disease — in particular, HF and hypertension. What is less certain, however, is whether treatment of sleep disorders before the onset of heart disease can prevent heart disease, and how to incorporate evaluation of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea into a cardiologist’s general clinical practice. “Untreated, sleep apnea is associated with increased CHD events, such as MI, atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, stroke, sudden death and progression to HF,” Rami Khayat, MD, associate professor of medicine at Ohio State University …
This sleep scientist says you probably don’t have insomnia.
Julia Calderone | Feb 8, 2016, 2:20 PM Americans as a whole are really bad at sleeping. In a survey of more than 70,000 people in the US about a third of respondents said that they snoozed for less than seven hours per night. About 38% said that they’d fallen asleep during the day at least once in the month prior. It’s no surprise, then, that millions of Americans suffer from a wide range of sleep disorders. But their actual diagnoses may not be so straightforward. Many people who have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep assume that they have …
Fibromyalgia and sleep disorders: Link between sleep apnea, insomnia and restless legs syndrome
By: Dr. Victor Marchione | Fibromyalgia | Friday, November 20, 2015 – 03:00 PM Fibromyalgia is linked with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, insomnia and restless legs syndrome. Fibromyalgia is a condition where a person experiences all-over pain and stiffness, from the joints to the muscles. Fibromyalgia can also lead to sleep disorders due to patients being unable to sleep because of high levels of body pain. Fibromyalgia and sleep disorders seem to go hand in hand. Pain causes the individual to not sleep and the lack of sleep leads to more pain, and so on and so forth. …
To Sleep Better, Stay Cool and Cut Clutter.
Here’s how to tweak your environment for a good night’s rest. By Lisa Esposito | Dec. 30, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. Dark, quiet, cool but not cold, not too humid or dry, calm and uncluttered – that’s the perfect setup for sleeping. So find a noise-free room, clear a space near your bed and turn down your thermostat, because better sleep leads to better health. Here are tips to reduce noise, help you unwind and make your bedroom a serene oasis for sleep. Make Space Having a super-cluttered bedroom may affect how well you sleep, suggests a recent study led by clinical …
A sleep expert reveals the ideal start time for work and school.
ADAM BANICKI, TANYA LEWIS | JAN 1 2015, 2:30 PM Watch video: http://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-expert-says-work-should-start-later-2015-12#ooid=VyeDNrdzoqu6uw_MkgS6syfLY0G2z5cj A startling number of teenagers and young adults are chronically sleep deprived, and the answer is starting school or work later, one sleep expert argues. According to Paul Kelley, a sleep researcher at the University of Oxford, children between the ages of eight and 10 should start school no earlier than 8:30 a.m., 16-year-olds should start at or after 10 a.m., and 18-year-olds at 11 a.m or later. The suggestions come from a recent study published by Kelley and his colleagues in the journal Learning, Media and Technology. “At …
Seeking the Gears of Our Inner Clock.
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Sleep and activity cycles are a very big part of psychiatric illnesses, reports the New York Times Neuroscientists have struggled to understand exactly how the mind’s cycles affect us. Studies of donated brains provide some answers. Carl Zimmer | DEC. 28, 2015 Credit Tim Robinson Throughout the day, a clock ticks inside our bodies. It rouses us in the morning and makes us sleepy at night. It raises and lowers our body temperature at the right times, and regulates the production of insulin and other hormones. The body’s circadian clock even influences our thoughts …
The Dark Side and Downsides of Melatonin.
By Piyali Syam • December 16, 2015 at 11:01pm Twenty-one years ago, MIT neuroscientist Dr. Richard Wurtman introduced melatonin as a new solution to sleep problems. His lab patented supplements in hopes of curing insomnia in the older population, whose melatonin receptors calcify with age. “Researchers say pills of the natural hormone…will bring on slumber quickly without the addictive effects of drugs,” the New York Times reported at the time. In the same article, Judith Vaitukaitis, then director of the National Center for Research Resource, said the hormone “offered hope for a natural, non-addictive agent that could improve sleep for …
Sleep disorders common on college campuses
By Abby Rinaldi, CO-NEWS EDITOR On November 29, 2015 USF is entering the last week of classes before finals week, a time of higher stress levels and less sleep. Some students will pull all-nighters studying notes, finishing projects or writing essays either at home or in the USF library, which is open 24/7 during finals. An article on collegestats.org stated all-nighters are “an accepted part of surviving college,” but warns against the effects of losing sleep. A simple Google search of keywords “sleep” and “finals” generates a slew of articles providing advice on how to get sleep during finals, or at …
Poor Sleep May Spur College Weight Gain.
By JAN HOFFMAN / OCTOBER 26, 2015 12:39 PM Credit: Juliette Borda As the first semester of the school year reaches the halfway mark, countless college freshmen are becoming aware that their clothes are feeling rather snug. While the so-called freshman 15 may be hyperbole, studies confirm that many students do put on five to 10 pounds during that first year away from home. Now new research suggests that an underlying cause for the weight gain may be the students’ widely vacillating patterns of sleep. A study in the journal Behavioral Sleep Medicine looked at the sleep habits of first-semester freshmen. …
Are You a Nighttime Tooth Grinder? Here’s How To Tell—And What to Do About It.
George Dvorsky Filed to: DAILY EXPLAINER10/02/15 2:00pm Teeth grinding is a problem that affects nearly one in ten individuals, yet many of us don’t even realize we’re doing it. And that’s a problem given just how harmful it can be to our health. Here’s how to find out if you grind your teeth when you sleep—and why it’s something you shouldn’t ignore. I grind my teeth when I sleep. At least that’s what my dentist tells me. At first I was skeptical, but after handing him over $1,000 in the past year to fix my cracking teeth and disintegrating fillings, …
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