Snoring, Sleep Apnoea And Obesity In Teenagers

Sleep-related breathing disorders, snoring and sleep apnoea are frequent and well-known disorders in children and adults. However, they have been poorly studied in teenagers so far. Angeles Sánchez-Armengol (Virgen del Rocio University Hospital, Seville, Spain) and colleagues have previously reported sleep-related breathing disorders in 267 teenagers (aged 11-19 years) between 1997 and 2000. Read more ...

Title: Health Tip: Depression in Seniors
Category: Health News
Created: 9/12/2008 2:00:00 AM
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An article published in the September 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine finds that older women (age 70 and up) are at an increased risk of experiencing falls if they sleep five hours or less per night compared to older women who sleep more than seven to eight hours per night. Author Katie L. Stone, Ph.D. Read more ...

Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work in the sleep lab. Read more ...

If there's one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it's that they don't sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, those first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns, known as circadian rhythms, that a child will need for a healthy future. Some children may start life with the sleep odds stacked against them, though, say University of Michigan sleep experts who study the issue. Read more ...

Biphasic sleep refers to having two split sleep cycles, say from 11 to 3, and then from 6 to 10. This sounds like a strange way to get the sleep we need, but according to some sleep experts, this may be the way it's meant to be.   Were we designed to sleep in shifts? Some scientists, including Richard Stevens, an epidemiologist at the University of Connecticut, suggest this may well be the case. Before all the modern inventions, including... Read more ...