Sleep Medicine
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CPAP not only solution for sleep apnea
Most commonly, obstructive sleep apnea involves the cessation or significant decrease in airflow while sleeping.
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Erratic sleep, lack of activity tied to worsening schizophrenia symptoms
Compared with healthy control participants, patients with schizophrenia had more total sleep time and spent more time resting or being passive.
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‘Shocking’ data on what’s really in melatonin gummies
The investigators found that consuming some products as directed could expose consumers, including children, to doses that are 40-130 times...
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Obstructive sleep apnea linked to early cognitive decline
If the cognitive changes found in the study are, in fact, caused by OSA, it is unclear whether they are the beginning of long-term cognitive...
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Napping and AFib risk: The long and the short of it
Both long and short daily naps were linked to atrial fibrillation risk, but in different ways.
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Sleep disturbances linked to post-COVID dyspnea
Sleep disturbance after COVID hospitalization was associated with dyspnea and lower lung function.
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Bad sleep cuts years off life, but exercise can save us
“Exercise fights inflammatory and metabolic dysregulations and abnormal sympathetic nervous system activity.”
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Disordered sleep tied to a marked increase in stroke risk
“Sleep disturbance may also have a bi-directional relationship with many stroke risk factors; for example, sleep disturbance may be a symptom of...
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Music at bedtime may aid depression-related insomnia
“This, on the surface, would seem to be a meaningful change,” although it is less clear whether it is “clinically meaningful.”
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Melatonin: A new way to reduce self-harm?
Melatonin may reduce the risk of self-harm by treating sleep problems related to psychiatric comorbidities, especially anxiety and depression.