News tagged with 'Sleep'

A new government report shows only one-third of adults are getting sufficient sleep or rest every night. According to the CDC, some 50 to 70 million American adults suffer from sleep and wakefulness disorders.

Federal safety investigators are considering screening commercial bus and truck drivers, as well as merchant ship pilots for sleep apnea - a disorder which involves disruptions in breathing during sleep.

Loud snoring, interrupted breathing and sleep disruption – classic signs of sleep apnea – raise the risk of premature death in men by 40 percent.

Immunity to colds is helped by sleep. But this study, out of Carnegie Mellon University, shows for the first time that the quality of undisturbed sleep is just as important a component to improving immunity to the common cold.

Researchers have long known that lack of sleep is bad for your health. Now a new study suggests an extra hour of sleep each night may lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky surveying about 10,000 students from Kentucky on their sleep habits – found a reduction in auto crashes when the school hour started one hour later at 8:30 a.m. There may be a biological reason teens do better with a later start.

Not having your internal clock working properly may disable your immune response making you more susceptible to bacterial infection. This study on fruit flies out of Stanford, found that most ability to fight invading bacteria occured at night when the body is restoring. 

Regular physical activity can help to reduce a woman’s overall risk of cancer, but only if she gets a good night’s sleep, according to findings presented at the meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) this week.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that time changes associated with daylight saving time increase the risk of heart attack.

Researchers find that the smell of roses made dreams more emotionally pleasant in subjects tested. The smell of rotten eggs had the opposite effect. Now they hope to take those findings to help people who experience nightmares. 

Teens that sleep fewer than 6 1/2 hours per night are at twice the risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure) and those with troubled sleep habits are at triple the risk, according to researchers at Western Reserve University.

Children who had the most deep, restorative sleep, characterized by rapid eye movement or REM, were the least obese in this study. Researchers in Pittsburgh believe that lack of sleep and hormones contribute to obesity, which has triped in adolescents over the past 30 years. 

Sleep apnea results in low blood oxygen levels, and now a study out of UCLA shows that it may lead to brain injury, and disrupted memory and thinking. The damage occurs in regions that help store memory and researchers can measure the impact.