A poll released today finds pervasive use of communications technology in the hour before bed. It also finds a large number of Americans aren’t getting the sleep they need and search for ways to cope.
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Mar
7
2011
Technology is creating sleepy Americans
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Combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) almost universally suffer sleep problems — with more cases of sleep apnea than might otherwise be expected — U.S. Army researchers found. In a group of 135 young, otherwise healthy combat veterans with PTSD, 98.5 percent reported sleep complaints, Nick Orr, M.D., and colleagues at the Walter Reed [...]
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Patients who suffer from both allergic rhinitis and obstructive sleep apnea may experience escalated symptoms of stress and fatigue.
In a paper presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery Foundation annual meeting, researchers told of results from 34 people who were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea.
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A study published in the August 15, 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most patients continue to have moderate to severe OSA one year after undergoing bariatric surgery. Results of this study suggest that it is the severity of the condition, rather than a patient’s pre-surgical weight, that determines if obstructive sleep apnea will be resolved.
Results show that bariatric surgery reduced body mass index (BMI) from an average of 51 to 32 in 24 adults with obstructive sleep apnea.
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Feb
15
2008
Sleep apnea doubles auto accident risk
People who have sleep apnea, a potentially fatal sleep-breathing disorder which causes tissue in the airway to collapse and halt breathing for at least 10 seconds, and up to 90 seconds or longer during sleep, are at double the risk of being in an auto accident, a study recently released by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and University of British Columbia respirologists finds.
Published online in the journal Thorax, the study also found that patients with sleep apnea are three to five times more likely to be in a serious auto accident involving personal injury.
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Nov
13
2006
Research questions use of sleep meds for apneics
Prescription sleep aids may do little to improve the use of continuous positive airway pressure devices (CPAP) among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
A new study published in the November issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), finds that patients with OSA who were given prescription sleep aids were no more likely to use their CPAP machines than patients with obstructive sleep apnea taking a placebo.
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Read an interview conducted by a leading software manufacturer, TechSmith, on how Awake In America uses SnagIt 8, a screen-capture and image manipulation tool, in our mission of helping to create awareness about sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, among others.
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