Sleep Apps Need Work, Study Says
April 13, 2017 12:36 PM | VOANews.com Sleep deprivation has been linked to weakened immune systems and could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions, so it is no wonder many Americans are looking to apps to help them sleep. A new analysis of the 35 popular apps available to download has led researchers to say the apps need improvement. There are hundreds of sleep apps available for Android devices or iPhones, most use soothing sounds to help people fall asleep. But researchers say less than half of the apps they looked at offered any “general information about sleep” or …
World Sleep Day: How not getting enough sleep can affect your mental health
Frances Coleman-Williams | Friday 17 Mar 2017 5:00 am | Metro.co.uk Having suffered from severe sleep problems myself, I’ve taken some time to look at the relationship between a lack of sleep and mental health. Insomnia involves difficulty in getting enough sleep to feel refreshed in the morning. The lack of sleep may be due to finding it difficult to get to sleep, waking up multiple times and/or waking up early and not being able to get back to sleep. As well as affecting your physical health, the lack of sleep can affect your mental health as well. Links between …
Sleep deprivation seen as health threat
By ALYSSA HARVEY aharvey@bgdailynews.com | Jan 17, 2017 | BGDailyNews.com When it comes to sleep, many people aren’t getting enough. The American Sleep Association said 37 percent of 20- to 39-year-olds report short sleep duration. Forty percent of 40- to 59-year-olds report short sleep durations. The ASA reported 35.3 percent of adults report less than seven hours of sleep during a typical 24-hour period. The ASA said 100,000 deaths occur each year in U.S. hospitals because of medical errors, and sleep deprivation has been shown to be a significant contributing factor. There are more than 80 sleep disorders that a …
Is Your Sleep Tracking App Keeping You Up All Night?
MAR 2 2017, 3:36 AM ET | by JOAN RAYMOND | NBCNews.com It’s bad enough that our fitness devices and apps act as biological overlords, making us feel inadequate during the day. But it seems that some of us can’t even catch a break at night. Apparently some of us get so worked up about our sleep apps and devices telling us we’re sleep failures that we wind up anxious and stressed, potentially causing even lousier sleep, according to a new case series published in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. They cite the case of …
Sleep on it
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 …
Costs for treating insomnia reach $62 billion worldwide
By Sandra Block / Kiplinger’s Personal Finance / Published Feb 23, 2017 at 08:06PM 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. Inadequate sleep has also been associated with a long list of health problems, from obesity to dementia. Driving after less than five hours of sleep is as risky as driving when you’re drunk, according to …
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% …
One-third of people ‘get less than six hours sleep a night’
Ikea-commissioned survey also reveals that almost half of couples sleep back-to-back Tim O’Brien | Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 17:57| IrishTimes.com One-third of Irish people are getting less than six hours sleep a night, a new survey has revealed. The sleep survey, which was commissioned by Swedish retailer Ikea and designed by paediatric sleep consultant Lucy Wolfe, also found that almost half of couples sleep back-to-back with their partners. Meanwhile, four in 10 respondents claimed they have to use sleeping aids. Blackout blinds were the most widely used (28 per cent of respondents), while just five per cent used ear plugs. …
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 …
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