MICRRH researcher explains multi-generational 30 year sleep study
Esther MacIntyre | October 30, 2017 | NorthwestStar.com.au A local researcher from Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health (MICRRH) has been involved in a mammoth sleep study tracking mothers and their offspring over more than 30 years. The study began in 1981 with Mater Private Hospital in Brisbane and the University of Queensland (UQ) recruiting around 8000 pregnant women and their offspring, who they are tracking from birth to 30 years old. Research Officer, Fatima Yaqoot, is one cog in a larger researching wheel, analysing data at MICRRH in Mount Isa. “My role is to look at the continuity of sleep problems …
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 …
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 …
Sleep apnea tied to diabetes and hypertension during pregnancy
Published December 21, 2016 | Reuters Pregnant women who experience certain breathing problems during sleep may be more likely to develop complications like high blood pressure and diabetes, recent U.S. research suggests. In the study of more than 3,000 women, researchers did home-based sleep studies twice during pregnancy to check for what’s known as apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder that involves repeated stops and starts in breathing. Risk factors for sleep apnea include older age and obesity. Women who had sleep apnea were almost twice as likely to develop what’s known as preeclampsia, a type of pregnancy-related high blood …
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