Researchers found that 75 percent of children surveyed consumed caffeine on a daily basis, and the more caffeine the children consumed, the less they slept.
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sleep quality
Dec
22
2010
Caffeine leads to sleep problems in children
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Research shows sleep deprivation leads to changes in the levels of key proteins that facilitate events involved in the underlying pathology of migraine headaches.
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Some 19 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq have migraine and migraine is suspected in another 17 percent. While prevalence of migraine among the U.S. military is well documented, little is known about sleep quality in soldiers with chronic headaches including post-traumatic headache and migraine. Tweet
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Despite recently mandated reductions in medical student workload hours, a new study reveals the widespread presence of job stress, and sleep deprivation among physicians and nurses in teaching hospitals. When asked to keep a running account of work activity, patient load, and work stress using handheld computers, physicians reported much higher levels of work stress than nurses.
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A study in the journal Sleep shows that long-term alcoholism affects sleep even after long periods of abstinence, and the pattern of this effect is similar in both men and women. Alcoholics also had significantly more stage 1 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep (8.5 percent in men, 6.3 percent in women) than controls (6.2 percent in men, 5.6 percent in women).
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Research in an abstract, “The Relationship of Weekday and Weekend Sleep on Academic”, presented on Wed., June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, suggests that getting more high-quality sleep is associated with better academic performance. The positive relationship is especially relevant to performance in math. Results indicate that higher math scores were [...]
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Mar
31
2009
Work hassles hamper sleep
Common hassles at work are more likely than long hours, night shifts or job insecurity to follow workers home and interfere with their sleep.
That’s the conclusion of a University of Michigan study which was initially presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
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It is no secret that a good night’s sleep can lead to a well-balanced and healthy lifestyle, but the age-old question of how to get a decent eight hours still remains. A just-published study finds a happy marriage can lead to a better night’s sleep for women.
The Pitt study finds that women who believe they have happy marriages reported less difficulty falling asleep, less likelihood of waking up during the night or too early in the morning and less restless sleep compared to women who report less happiness in their marriages.
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Post-partum depression can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows. A study published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines.
Sleep deprivation can hamper a mother’s ability to care for her infant, as judgment and concentration decline. Sleep-deprived mothers also may inadvertently compromise their infants’ sleep quality because infants often adopt their mothers’ circadian sleep rhythms.
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