Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy has transformed the lives of millions of people with sleep apnea, offering them a chance to reclaim their sleep and improve their overall health. On CPAP Appreciation Day, it’s time to celebrate the life-changing impact of this therapy and help raise awareness about sleep apnea. Here are six ways…
Individuals with insomnia were 69% more likely to have a heart attack compared to those who didn’t have the sleep disorder during an average nine years of follow-up, according to new research presented at the recent American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session and published simultaneously in the journal Clinical Cardiology. In addition, when looking at…
Researchers from the Child Health Research Institute, the School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, (USA), the Translational Research Unit, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (Spain), and the Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, (Spain) published an article in early 2022 showing that Epigenetic age acceleration in obstructive sleep apnea is reversible with the…
Atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who have undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) are twice as likely to relapse as those who are diagnosed with SDB, according to research published in the International Journal of Cardiology and Vascular Biology. Patients having Atrial Fibrillation catheter ablation (OSA-AF) at a Dutch center from December 2018 to February 2020 were included…
A joint venture between the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and the Sleep Research Society has awarded Girardin Jean-Louis Ph.D., director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences, with this year’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award for his work in fostering successful academic careers….
We know that in the absence of treatment, sleep apnea can have a devastating effect on a patient’s well-being. Polysomnography is the current gold standard for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea, but it is time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to get. There are also difficulties in the primary care setting in identifying obstructive sleep apnea. Patients will…
The first step in determining if you have a sleep issue is to notify your health care practitioner. In some cases, you may be sent to a specialist by your primary care physician to be diagnosed and treated for your sleep condition. The following are examples of sleep disorders you should bring up: Find out…
More than a third of high school students say they’ve been plagued by feelings of depression or hopelessness, and one in five say they’ve contemplated taking their own life. Even more alarmingly, this generation of teens is the most sleep-deprived in human history. Most children and adults (70%) get enough sleep, but only 15 percent…
How much sleep does our brain require to function effectively over time? A recent study published in the journal Nature, offers an explanation. In a group of approximately 500,000 adults from the UK BioBank, the researchers discovered that both insufficient and excessive sleep contributed to decreased cognitive function. The main finding was that seven hours…
