Could It Be Sleep Deprivation and Not ADHD?
Experts weigh in on associations between ADHD and sleep, including whether ADHD will ever be considered strictly a sleep problem. By Jennifer Lea Reynolds, Contributor |Oct. 25, 2017, at 10:06 a.m. It’s a common chicken-and-egg question: Is it sleeplessness that may be causing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or is it ADHD that’s causing sleeplessness? Experts who gathered in September for the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress in Paris examined prior research on the topic, pointing to a strong association between sleep issues and ADHD. If sleeplessness was indeed causing ADHD, the experts addressed the possibility of eventually treating ADHD with nonpharmacological methods to reverse …
Snoring, Sleep Apnea Linked to Memory Loss
THU, APR 16 A new study finds heavy snorers and sleep apnea sufferers show signs of memory loss or dementia 10 years earlier than those who slept well. …
The Surprising Link Between Sleep and Gestational Diabetes
by Colleen de Bellefonds on October 19, 2017 Around week 24 to week 28 of pregnancy, your doctor will offer you a glucose screening, where you’ll have to chug a super-sweet orange liquid and then get your blood drawn. This screening looks for gestational diabetes (GDM) — a form of diabetes, or insulin resistance, that happens during pregnancy and affects approximately one in 10 expecting women. Your doctor has likely already talked to you about some of the ways you can lower your risk of GDM, including paying extra careful attention to the foods you eat. But a new study, published this week in …
Could This Common Sleep Condition Be Affecting Your Sex Life?
Dr Lewis Ehrlich | whimn.com.au Read this before bed tonight. Sleep is arguably the most important part of your day. It not only helps to restore and maintain our immune, skeletal, muscular and nervous systems but maintains our mental performance, mood, memory and even sexual health. With the over-stimulating rigours of day-to-day activities, poor lifestyle choices (we see you third coffee), deadlines, and our obsession with technology (hello, Instagram), it seems harder and harder to clock eight hours. But beyond environmental factors, there’s a host of medical conditions that can affect our sleep. The most common? Obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep what now? Obstructive sleep …
Sleep Apnea
By BROOKE HILDEBRAND CLUBBS • OCT 18, 2017 | KRCU.org We often think of snoring as annoying or embarrassing, but we don’t usually think of it as deadly. However, it can be a symptom of sleep apnea, an involuntary cessation of breathing that occurs while the patient is asleep. Left untreated, sleep apnea can have serious and life-shortening consequences: high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, automobile accidents caused by falling asleep at the wheel, diabetes, and depression.. The University of Wisconsin found over an 18-year period, people with severe, untreated sleep apnea died a rate more than three times that of …
AASM: Position Statement on Home Sleep Apnea Testing
October 16, 2017 | EMPR.com The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has published a new position statement on the clinical use of a home sleep apnea test (HSAT) in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. HSATs are ordered by healthcare providers to help diagnosis obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adults. If left untreated, OSA can increase the risk of hypertension, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and stroke. The AASM states that polysomnography is the standard medical test to diagnose OSA when it is suspected in adults. On the other hand, an HSAT serves as an alternate clinical test to diagnose …
Dream Deprivation Is Just as Unhealthy as Sleep Deprivation—Here’s Why
To sleep, perchance to dream? Actually, we’re dreaming less than ever and the deprivation could be opening the door to all kinds of health troubles. BY ALEXA ERICKSON You might already know how important sleep is, and how sleep deprivation can cause a slew of health problems. But have you thought about your dreams? Do you dream? And can you remember your dreams from last night? Whether you can or not, if you’re not dreaming—and more and more people aren’t, according to new research—you’re putting yourself at higher risk for obesity, memory loss, and inflammation throughout your body, which can lead to …
Sleep on your side, not your back in late pregnancy
ScienceDaily.com Date: October 12, 2017 Source: The Physiological Society Summary: A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research. This is the first study to monitor unborn babies overnight and at the same time record the mother’s position during sleep. A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology. This is the first study to monitor unborn babies overnight and at the same time record the mother’s position during sleep. The sleep position …
Study of the clinical and functional characteristics of asthmatic children with obstructive sleep apnea
DovePress.com Authors Nguyen-Hoang Y, Nguyen-Thi-Dieu T, Duong-Quy S Received 22 July 2017 Accepted for publication 3 September 2017 Published 12 October 2017 Volume 2017:10 Pages 285—292 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JAA.S147005 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single-blind Peer reviewers approved by Dr Amy Norman Peer reviewer comments 2 Editor who approved publication: Dr Amrita Dosanjh Yen Nguyen-Hoang,1 Thuy Nguyen-Thi-Dieu,2 Sy Duong-Quy3–5 1Department of Pediatrics, Phu Tho General Hospital, Phu Tho Province, 2Department of Pediatrics, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, 3Biomedical Research Center, Lam Dong Medical College, Dalat, Vietnam; 4Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing, Cochin Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; 5Division of Asthma and Immuno-Allergology, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Medical College, Hershey, PA, USA Background and objective: The …
4 Beyond snoring: Sleep apnea has dangerous consequences
Ginny Sugimoto, MD, Special to the Kitsap SunPublished 1:52 p.m. PT Oct. 11, 2017 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a major health problem with potentially dangerous consequences. For instance, truck drivers with this sleep disorder who did not get or did not follow treatment had a five times higher rate of preventable crashes than truckers without sleep apnea, according to researchers of a large-scale 2016 study of the U.S. trucking industry. Even for people with sleep apnea who don’t operate heavy machinery, this disorder can seriously compromise well-being, raising a person’s risk of irregular heart rate (atrial fibrillation), heart disease, …
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