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New study links habitual sleep deprivation to dampened immune responses Alan Brazelton | Feb 27, 2017 | DailyUW.com Many college students put off sleeping properly. An average student needs about eight hours of sleep, but most college students really only sleep about six to seven hours on average, including those weekend sleep-ins. Midterms, studying, papers, and hanging out with friends tend to take precedence. However, a new study by UW researchers, “Transcriptional Signatures of Sleep Duration Discordance in Monozygotic Twins,” published in the scientific journal Sleep shows that going without proper levels of sleep for an extended period does more …
What Causes Crime? New Study Links Lack Of Sleep By Teenagers To Criminal Behavior As Adults
BY JULIANA ROSE PIGNATARO | 02/24/17 AT 11:40 AM | IBTimes.com Drowsiness might not just have ill effects on a person’s day— it could also impact life years later. A study published in the journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that teenagers who reported feeling tired in the middle of the day were more than four times more likely to commit crimes as adults. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of York in the U.K. collected data from 101 15-year-old boys from schools in England to get the results. “It’s the first study to our knowledge …
A Quarter Of Brits Are Boozing To Help Them Sleep. This Is A Terrible Idea NEWS
Alcohol might make you nod off quicker, but your sleep will be dreadful by NICK HARRIS-FRY | on 24 FEB 2017 | CoachMag.co.uk A sizeable 25% of adults in the UK are hitting the bottle to help them fall asleep, according to the latest Great British Bedtime Report produced by the Sleep Council. That’s a hefty rise on the 16% who turned to booze to help them snooze in the last report, which came out in 2013. The 2017 survey of more than 5,000 adults found that the biggest bedtime boozers were people aged between 45 and 54, with 30% …
Home sleep studies may help identify sleep apnea
Stuart Quan, MD, Contributing Editor | POSTED FEBRUARY 23, 2017, 9:30 AM | Health.Harvard.edu What if I need a sleep study? If you are one of the approximately 35% of Americans who snore, perhaps this has crossed your mind. You have read on the internet or watched a newscast about sleep apnea, a condition associated with an increase in heart attack and stroke risk. Loud snoring, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and observed pauses in breathing at night are the most frequent symptoms. A sleep study is necessary to make the diagnosis. To many people, the thought of a sleep study raises …
Benefits of Treatment for Snoring
From ResMed.com – Original Article on Snoring Everyone in your household benefits when you take measures to stop your snoring, control your obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and reclaim your sleep. Tired of feeling tired? Want your energy back? It all comes down to getting a good night’s sleep – both for you and your partner. There are several studies that point to the negative effects of snoring on partners. Their sleep is disrupted, so they can suffer from all the consequences of poor quality sleep: tiredness, daytime sleepiness, mild depression, and irritability. So if you take measures to stop your …
Sleep deprived suffer performance loss, according to new study
Tracie White on January 26, 2017 | ScopeBlog.Standford.edu More bad news for insomniacs and those of us who struggle to get enough sleep at night. Lack of sleep definitely affects your performance the next day, and probably for a longer period of time than you might expect, according to a new study. Among the findings: Two consecutive nights of less than six hours could leave you sluggish for the following six days. (Surprised? You aren’t alone: This stat sparked a gasp of dismay at my office staff meeting.) Researchers also found that staying up an extra hour, even if followed …
Smart Strategies to Get More Sleep
Do more than just count sheep to pay down your sleep debt. By SANDRA BLOCK, Senior Associate Editor | Kiplinger.com From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, March 2017 Americans have rung up a massive sleep debt, and the bill is coming due. More than one-third of adults get less than seven hours of sleep on a regular basis, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Lack of sleep affects job performance, relationships and the ability to perform routine tasks. The Rand Corp. estimates that decreased productivity by sleep-deprived workers costs the U.S. economy $411 billion a year, or 2.3% of our gross …
What Does a Good Night’s Sleep Look Like?
MARCH 17, 2017 – 5:00 AM | by Lisa Mulcahy| Parade.com Remember the last time you caught some quality z’s? Good sleep helps us stay healthy, but many people struggle to sleep well. Earlier this year, an expert panel reported some features of quality sleep in the journal Sleep Health: Falling asleep in 30 minutes or less Being awake for 20 minutes or less after initially falling asleep (In other words, a short jaunt to the bathroom won’t disrupt your sleep unless you can’t get back to sleep afterward.) Sleeping at least 85 percent of the total time you’re in …
Sleep: You’re Doing It Wrong
MARCH 17, 2017 – 5:00 AM | by Paula Spencer Scott | Parade.com Your body wants to sleep. It really does. To work, every system in your body needs z’s. Sounds simple, but sometimes our expectations and habits get in the way of the very thing we need most, says Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, director of the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center. We have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or getting refreshing sleep, she says. In short, we’re doing it wrong—and we could be taking years off our lives. The good news: “Sleep is a skill. It’s not like eye color, which you …
Lost Sleep Is Costing Japan’s Economy Billions
Japan loses up to $138 billion a year, study finds by Keiko Ujikane | February 15, 2017, 3:00 PM CST| From Benchmark | Bloomberg.com A man takes a nap in Tokyo. Photographer: Junji Kurokawa/AP Photo Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy. The problem has been getting worse in recent years. Nearly half of full-time workers say they don’t get enough sleep, citing long overtime hours as a primary reason, according to a government white paper on “karoshi”– death from overwork. That is …
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