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Sleep & Aging - Physician's Weekly, 3/22/04
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Treatments for sleep disorders
- Medifocus.com
News & Research:
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Less
Sleep Associated With High, Worsening Blood Pressure In Middle Age -
Science Daily, 6/11/09 - "After excluding patients
taking medication for high blood pressure and controlling for age, race and
sex, the researchers found that individuals who slept fewer hours were
significantly more likely to have higher systolic (top number) and diastolic
(bottom number) blood pressure ... Each hour of reduction in sleep duration
was associated with a 37 percent increase in the odds of developing high
blood pressure"
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Link
Found Between Poor Sleep Quality And Increased Risk Of Death - Science
Daily, 6/10/09
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Poor
Sleep Is Associated With Lower Relationship Satisfaction In Both Women And
Men - Science Daily, 6/10/09
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Too little
sleep may raise blood pressure - MSNBC, 6/9/09 -
"The study ... found missing an average one hour of sleep over five years
raised the risk of developing high blood pressure by 37 percent"
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Long
And Short Sleep Durations Are Associated With Increased Risk For Diabetes
- Science Daily, 6/8/09 - "the adjusted odds ratio
was 1.24 for diabetes associated with short sleep (five hours per night or
less) and 1.48 for diabetes associated with long sleep (nine or more hours
per night)"
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Sleep Restriction Results In Weight Gain Despite Decreases In Appetite And
Consumption - Science Daily, 6/8/09 - "in the
presence of free access to food, sleep restricted subjects reported decrease
in appetite, food cravings and food consumption; however, they gained weight
over the course of the study. Thus, the finding suggests that energy intake
exceeded energy expenditure during the sleep restriction ... Results
indicate that people whose sleep was restricted experienced an average
weight gain of 1.31 kilograms over the 11 days of the study"
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Lose Weight With a Good Night's Sleep? - WebMD, 5/16/09 -
"The average BMI for short sleepers was 28.3. That
compares to an average BMI of 24.5 for long sleepers. The BMI range for
normal weight is considered to be 18.5-24.9 and for overweight 25.0-29.9.
BMI is calculated from a person's weight and height and is an indicator of
body fat"
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Inadequate Sleep Leads To Behavioral Problems, Study Finds - Science
Daily, 4/27/09
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Too
Much Or Too Little Sleep Increases Risk Of Diabetes - Science Daily,
4/21/09 - "The risk is 2½ times higher for people
who sleep less than 7 hours or more than 8 hours a night"
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Chronic Insomnia With Short Sleep Duration Is Significant Risk Factor For
Hypertension - Science Daily, 4/9/09 -
"participants with insomnia and an objectively measured, severely short
sleep duration of less than five hours had a risk for hypertension that was
500 percent higher than participants without insomnia who slept more than
six hours. People with insomnia and a moderately short sleep duration of
five to six hours had a risk for hypertension that was 350 percent higher
than normal sleepers"
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Sleep May Help Clear Brain For New Learning - Science Daily, 4/2/09
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Sleep: Spring Cleaning For The Brain? - Science Daily, 4/2/09
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Chronic Insomnia With Short Sleep Duration Is Significant Risk Factor For
Hypertension - Science Daily, 4/1/09 - "A study
in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to demonstrate that
chronic insomnia with objectively measured short sleep time is an
independent and clinically significant risk factor for hypertension"
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Late Bedtimes Linked to Heart Disease - WebMD, 3/30/09 -
"The fewer hours a man slept each night, the higher
his BMI, blood pressure, and triglyceride levels"
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Consuming A Little Less Salt Could Mean Fewer Deaths - Science Daily,
3/11/09 - "Participants who slept on average less
than six hours a night during the work week, when followed over six years,
were 4.56 times more likely than those getting six to eight hours of sleep
to convert from normal blood sugar levels to impaired fasting glucose"
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Inflammation May Be Link Between Extreme Sleep Durations And Poor Health
- Science Daily, 2/7/09
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What
Happens When We Sleep - Science Daily, 1/28/09
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Go ahead,
sleep in — it’s good for the heart - msnbc.com, 12/23/08 -
"About 12 percent of the people in the study
developed artery calcification during the five-year study period. Among
those who had slept less than five hours a night, 27 percent had developed
artery calcification ... That dropped to 11 percent among those who slept
five to seven hours, and to 6 percent among those who slept more than seven
hours a night"
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Poor
Sleep Quality Linked To Postpartum Depression - Science Daily, 12/10/08
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Physical Activity, Sleep May Cut Cancer Risk - WebMD, 11/17/08 -
"Among the most physically active women younger than
65 -- women who reported getting about an hour a day of moderate physical
activity -- cancer was 47% rarer for those who got at least seven hours of
nightly sleep. Those findings held regardless of other cancer risk factors"
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Loss
Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body -
Science Daily, 9/2/08 - "losing sleep for even part
of one night can trigger the key cellular pathway that produces
tissue-damaging inflammation. The findings suggest a good night’s sleep can
ease the risk of both heart disease and autoimmune disorders such as
rheumatoid arthritis"
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Less
REM Sleep Associated With Being Overweight Among Children And Teens -
Science Daily, 8/4/08
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Extra Sleep Improves Athletic Performance - Science Daily, 6/9/08 -
"Getting extra sleep over an extended period of time
improves athletic performance, mood and alertness ... The athletes then
extended their sleep to 10 hours per day for six to seven weeks ... After
obtaining extra sleep, athletes swam a 15-meter meter sprint 0.51 seconds
faster, reacted 0.15 seconds quicker off the blocks, improved turn time by
0.10 seconds and increased kick strokes by 5.0 kicks"
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Smoking May Wreak Havoc on Sleep - WebMD, 2/4/08
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Lack
Of Deep Sleep May Increase Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes - Science Daily,
1/1/08 - "They found that when slow-wave sleep was
suppressed for only three nights, young healthy subjects became about 25
percent less sensitive to insulin"
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Insufficient Sleep Raises Risk Of Diabetes, Study Suggests - Science
Daily, 12/1/07 - "subjects who reported sleeping
five or fewer hours and subjects who reported sleeping nine or more hours
were significantly more likely to have incident diabetes over the follow-up
period than were subjects who reported sleeping seven hours"
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Sleep a Speedy Time for Memory Making - WebMD, 11/15/07
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Kids: Less Sleep May Lead to Overweight - WebMD, 11/5/07
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Lack
Of Sleep Doubles Risk Of Death... But So Can Too Much Sleep - Science
Daily, 9/24/07 - "Those who had cut their sleeping
from 7h to 5 hours or less faced a 1.7 fold increased risk in mortality from
all causes, and twice the increased risk of death from a cardiovascular
problem in particular ... those individuals who showed an increase in sleep
duration to 8 hours or more a night were more than twice as likely to die as
those who had not changed their habit, however, predominantly from
non-cardiovascular diseases"
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Extra Sleep Boosts Athletic Performance - WebMD, 6/13/07
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Sleep Strengthens Your Memory - Science Daily, 4/24/07
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Sleep Deprivation Blurs Moral Judgment - WebMD, 3/2/07
- How
much sleep do I really need? - Dr. Murray
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Some Respect, Please, for the Afternoon Nap - New York Times, 2/25/07
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Sleep Deprivation
May Impair Memory - WebMD, 2/12/07
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Take a Nap,
Protect Your Heart? - WebMD, 2/12/07 -
"A total of 23,681 residents of
Greece with no history of heart disease, stroke, or cancer at enrollment
were followed an average of 6.3 years ... people who took naps at least
three times a week for an average of at least 30 minutes were 37% less
likely to die of heart disease than people who did not take regular naps"
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On-the-job naps might cut risk for heart problems - USA Today, 2/12/07 -
"In the largest study to date on the
health effects of napping, researchers tracked 23,681 healthy Greek adults
for an average of about six years. Those who napped at least three times
weekly for about half an hour had a 37% lower risk of dying from heart
attacks or other heart problems than those who did not nap"
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Less Sleep, More
Pounds - WebMD, 5/23/06
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Skimpy Sleep May
Up Blood Pressure - WebMD, 4/3/06 -
"Among people aged 32-59, those who
reported getting less than six hours of nightly sleep in the original survey
were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with high blood pressure"
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Study Shows How Sleep Improves Memory - Science Daily, 6/29/05
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Sleep Helps the Brain Learn - WebMD, 6/14/05
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How Sleep, or Lack of, Affects Teen Athletes - WebMD, 5/13/05
- Long
or Short Sleep Time May Be Associated With Diabetes - Medscape, 4/26/05
- "Sleep duration of six hours or
less or nine hours or more is associated with increased prevalence of
diabetes mellitus (DM) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)"
- Less Sleep Could Mean More Weight - WebMD, 1/10/05
- "Total sleep
times tended to decrease as body weight increased ... The difference in
total sleep time between patients who were normal weight and those who
weren't was only 16 minutes per day"
- The New Science of Sleep - Time Magazine Cover
Story (paid prescription), 12/20/04
- Sleep Loss Feeds Appetite - WebMD, 12/7/04
- Sleep More and You May Control Eating More -
WebMD, 11/9/04
- Sleep Disorders Often Indicate Multiple Health Conditions
- Science Daily, 11/5/04
- Deep Sleep Cements Learning - WebMD, 10/27/04
- Zzzzzzzz! How
much sleep is enough? - MSNBC, 6/21/04
- Too Much Sleep Just as Bad as Too Little? - WebMD,
3/23/04
- Rx for Teen Moodiness: Sleep - WebMD, 2/9/04
- Sleep on It, Really It Helps - WebMD, 1/21/04
- Sleep A Must For Creative Thinking - CBS News,
1/21/04
- Chronic Low-Back Pain and Related Disability Improved With Medium-Firm
Mattress Use - Doctor's Guide, 11/16/03
- Losing Sleep Impairs Frontal Cortex Function -
Doctor's Guide, 11/14/03
- Sleep Boosts Memory in Different Ways - WebMD,
10/8/03
- Sleep Disorders Tied to Poor Brain Chemistry -
Physician's Weekly, 8/4/03
- A Good Nap May Help You Learn - WebMD, 6/27/03
- Men Handle Sleep Deprivation Worse than Women -
WebMD, 6/13/03
- Neuroactive Steroid Concentrations Unaffected By Sleep Deprivation During
Major Depression - Doctor's Guide, 3/21/03
- Sustained Reduced Sleep Can Have Serious Consequences
- Doctor's Guide, 3/13/03 -
"subjects who slept four to six hours a night for fourteen consecutive
nights showed significant deficits in cognitive performance equivalent to
going without sleep for up to three days in a row. Yet these subjects
reported feeling only slightly sleepy and were unaware of how impaired they
were"
- Worry, inactivity impede sleep's health benefits -
USA Today, 3/9/03
- Sleep Disorders Mimic ADHD Symptoms - WebMD,
3/3/03
- Bad Sleep Leads to Early Death in Elderly - WebMD,
2/5/03
- You Can't Fight Biological Clock - WebMD, 1/30/03
- Minimal Mesopontine Neuronal Loss In Disordered Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep
- Doctor's Guide, 1/27/03
- Sleep, Less and More, Linked to Heart Disease -
WebMD, 1/24/03
- Unattended Somnography Reliably Estimates Sleep Quality, Disturbed Breathing
- Doctor's Guide, 1/17/03
- Study Follows Sleeping Patterns Of Women From Age 38 Onward
- Doctor's Guide, 1/10/03
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Too Much Sleep May Be as Bad As Too Little - Clinical Psychiatry News,
1/03
- Rhythms Of The Night: Sleep Patterns May Sound A Wake-Up Call For Modern
Medicine - Intelihealth, 12/16/02
- Sleep Said To Help Motor Skills - Intelihealth,
8/13/02
- Sleep on It: You'll Do Better - WebMD, 7/2/02
- 6
Hours of Sleep May Be Inadequate - WebMD, 6/25/02
- One week of 2-Hour Sleep Deprivation Associated with Reduced Psychomotor
Ability, Rise in IL-6, TNF-a - Doctor's Guide,
6/24/02
- Body Temperature Changes May Affect Sleep Promotional Effects Of
Sedative-Hypnotics - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/02
- Counting The Healthcare Costs of Chronic Sleep Deprivation
- Doctor's Guide, 5/15/02
- Sleep-Disordered Breathing Largely Undiagnosed -
Doctor's Guide, 4/22/02
- New Test Spots Sleep Disorders - WebMD, 4/3/02
- Simplified Tool Effectively Screens for Sleep Disorders
- Doctor's Guide, 4/3/02
- Asleep on the Job? Take a Nap - WebMD, 4/2/02
- Late to bed, early to rise complaining - USA
Today, 4/2/02
- Sleep and Behavioral Problems Linked - WebMD,
3/4/02
- If
You're Dog Tired, Your Dog May Be Guilty - WebMD,
2/21/02
- Study Suggests Less Sleep Is OK - Intelihealth,
2/15/02
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Mortality Associated With Sleep Duration and Insomnia - Archives of
General Psychiatry, 2/02 -
"The best survival was found among those who slept 7 hours per night.
Participants who reported sleeping 8 hours or more experienced significantly
increased mortality hazard, as did those who slept 6 hours or less. The
increased risk exceeded 15% for those reporting more than 8.5 hours sleep or
less than 3.5 or 4.5 hours. In contrast, reports of "insomnia" were not
associated with excess mortality hazard. As previously described,
prescription sleeping pill use was associated with significantly increased
mortality after control for reported sleep durations and insomnia"
- Are You Sleeping Enough -- or Too Much? - WebMD,
2/14/02
- Experts challenge study linking sleep, life span -
CNN, 2/14/02 -
"The data can't be used to establish a cause and affect relationship because
there are flaws in the study ... You can't tell how people rated their own
sleep quality and looked back at their sleep, which is a subjective reaction
to how much sleep they were getting"
- Researchers Debate Exactly How Sleep Aids Memory, Learning
- WebMD, 11/1/01
- NIH To Encourage Kids To Get Sleep - Intelihealth,
11/2/01 -
"Hunt said research shows that children who regularly get nine hours of
sleep perform better in school, experience better moods, suffer fewer
accidents and are less likely to become obese"
- Sleep on This: Lack of Shut-Eye Ups Diabetes Risk
- WebMD, 6/25/01 - "People who don't
get adequate rest may increase their risk for type 2 diabetes ...
"short-sleepers," or those who slept less than 6.5 hours per night, were
about 40% less insulin-sensitive than normal sleepers, those who logged
about 7.5 to 8.5 hours a night"
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Get Your ZZZs, Your Tummy Will Thank You, Natural Stomach Protein Repairs
Damage, Protects Against Ulcers While You Sleep - WebMD, 5/9/01 -
"late hours, too much alcohol, and other lifestyle factors that prevent a
good night's sleep, disrupt the stomach's natural repair cycle and may lead
to ulcers, or tearing of the stomach lining"
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Natural Stomach Protein Repairs Damage, Protects Against Ulcers While You
Sleep - WebMD, 4/12/01
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Body Clock: How Do We Keep Time? Clock Genes in Skin Cells Might Help
Diagnose Sleep Problems - WebMD, 4/12/01
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Health Officials Want Kids to Sleep at Least Nine Hours a Night - WebMD,
2/28/01
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The Big Sleep, Nodding Off - CNN, 12/5/00 -
"the nappers turned in a 34-percent higher performance level and scored 100
percent better in terms of alertness, he says."
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Working Night Shift Affects More Than Your Social Life - WebMD,
10/16/00
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Poor Sleep Erodes Middle-Aged Men - Intelihealth, 8/16/00
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Thanks for the Memories? Sleep May Deserve Some Credit - WebMD, 7/18/00
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Sleep May Help Keep Metabolic Process Young - WebMD, 7/13/00
- Lack Of
Sleep Alters Hormones, Metabolism - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/99
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Sleep's healing properties - CNN, 8/25/99
- Catching Forty Winks Can Be Risky - Dr. Dean,
7/27/99
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On-the-job naps could be pause that refreshes - CNN, 3/26/98
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