Sleep Medicine
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Adolescents’ screen time tied to more depression, less sleep
Social messaging, Web surfing, and time spent watching TV/movies appear to be directly correlated with sleep characteristics, but the same cannot...
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Short sleep linked with high homocysteine for some populations
Short sleep meant higher levels of the atherogenic amino acid for certain groups.
Opinion
Failure to launch can happen to college students
Asking college students questions about their academic challenges, social lives, self-care, and sleep on campus will help you get them back on...
Conference Coverage
Socioeconomic status, race found to impact CPAP compliance
SAN DIEGO – Identifying patients at risk for noncompliance and treating comorbid symptoms could improve compliance to CPAP therapy.
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AHA report highlights CVD burden, declines in smoking, sleep importance
Nearly half of Americans now have high blood pressure, in part due to the 2017 redefinition of hypertension.
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Diagnosing OSA: Polysomnography beats Fitbit, apps
The device and applications universally overestimated sleep time and showed only moderate association between sleep efficiency and AHI...
Conference Coverage
SNOT-22 may help identify patients with undiagnosed OSA
CORONADO, CALIF. – Finding underscores the overlap in symptoms between chronic rhinosinusitis and OSA.
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New study determines factors that can send flu patients to the ICU
Patients with the flu sent to the ICU had a more frequent history of sleep apnea, MI, and a BMI greater than 30 g/m2.
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Courts stop contraceptive mandate
Back pain persists in one in five patients.
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Too much, too little sleep linked to atherosclerosis
The sweet spot is 7-8 hours.
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New hypopnea criteria ID unique OSA patient subset
The revised OSA threshold pointed to a increased risk for arrhythmias in the patients.