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Sleep Apnea related News from News Media:
Hospital implements new equipment to screen for
sleep apnea
Newport News Times, OR - Jun 27,
2007
Sleepers With Mild Sleep Apnea Twice as Likely to
Crash Their Cars
Huffington Post, NY - Jun 25,
2007
Childhood sleep apnea can lead to drop in
cognitive ability
Oshkosh Northwestern, WI - Jun
20, 2007
Sleep Apnea May Increase Risk of Diabetes and
Heart Attack
Diabetes Health (press release), CA -
Jun 18, 2007
Why Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Are At
Higher Risk For Cardiovascular Disease
Science Daily (press release) -
Jun 1, 2007
Sleep Apnea May Affect the Heart Via Vessels
MedPage Today, NJ - Jun 1, 2007
AAPA: Obstructive Sleep Apnea May Lurk
Behind A-Fib
MedPage Today, NJ - May 30, 2007
Sleep Apnea and Diabetes
HealthandAge.com - May 31, 2007
In The Sept 2006 Issue
of Archives of Internal Medicinen in JAMA & Archivers
In This Issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1685.
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Sleep and Health:
Everywhere and in
Both Directions
Phyllis C. Zee; Fred W. Turek
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1686-1688.
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"This special issue of the ARCHIVES is
devoted to original
investigations that further our understanding of the
relationship of sleep and health. The theme that
emerges throughout this issue is that sleep serves as an
indicator of health and quality of life and therefore is
highly and directly relevant to the practice of
medicine.......As evidenced by this issue of the ARCHIVES,
sleep is making its way into
the mainstream of medicine, but it is also quite clear that
much more research is needed to understand
the mechanisms that link
sleep to health and to the development of safer and more effective
treatments for sleep disorders."
Arch Intern
Med -- Table of Contents (Vol. 166 No. 16, September 18, 2006)
Sleep Apnea, Hypertension Common in Chronic
Kidney Disease (Forbes, NY)
Many Women With OSA Symptoms
Delaying Diagnosis And Treatment (Medical
News Today)
Overweight Children At
Increased Risk For Adult Cardiovascular (Medical News Today)
Kids' High Blood Pressure
Linked to Sleep Problems (LiveScience.com, NY)
"SATURDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure is
associated with sleep breathing problems in children, say U.S.
researchers.
Their study of 20 children, aged 4 to 18,
found that 60 percent of
them had sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which includes
obstructive sleep apnea and obstructive hypoventilation -- a
condition where breathing isn't adequate to meet the body's needs."
Don't feel your're sleeping as
well as you used to? Join the club (Canada.com, Canada)
"They presumably have gone to family doctors for other things and
nobody ever picked it up," Libman said. Yet when these people signed
up for a research study seeking "sleepy, tired, older people," the
overwhelming majority - 90
per cent of the men and 85 per cent of the women - were
diagnosed with sleep apnea."
Exercise alone not enough to
cut Body Fat (The Money
Times, India)
More Exercise Not Enough to Cut Youngsters'
Weight, Study Finds (Bloomberg)
Surgery for child apnea leads to weight gain
(Xagena.it)
"A study by a researcher at University at Buffalo investigating the
causes of weight gain in children after they have their tonsils and
adenoids removed to treat sleep-disordered breathing has shown that
removing these tissues results in less fidgeting and other
non-exercise motor activity. This reduction in motor activity left
an excess of calories, findings showed, resulting in an average 13
percent increase in excess weight based on participants' age, sex
and height."
"Increases
in overweight after adenotonsillectomy in overweight children with
obstructive sleep-disordered breathing are associated with decreases
in motor activity and hyperactivity.
Pediatrics. 2006
Feb;117(2):e200-8."
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Sleep Apnea
May Hurt Women's Sex Lives (CBS
News, New York)
"A new study shows that undiagnosed sleep
apnea, a common disorder associated with snoring, may
decrease women's sexual function by reducing sexual desire ..."
Mo. hospital
screening for sleep apnea
Seattle Post Intelligencer -
Poor Sleep Can Have Big Impact on Kids Forbes
Polisomnographic findings on children with laryngopathies.
Rev Bras Otorrinolaringol (Engl Ed). 2006
Mar-Apr;72(2):187-92. Portuguese.
"CONCLUSION: The majority of patients with laryngomalacia showed a
central type apnea. Patients with various laryngeal diseases did not
present a predominant type of apnea."
Symptoms Of Sleep-Disordered
Breathing Common Among Adolescents
Parents Advised To Seek Early
Medical Treatment For A Child's Sleeping Problem
Experts Spot New Form of Sleep Apnea
Forbes
Treatment of complex sleep apnea syndrome: A retrospective
comparative review. Sleep Med.
2006 Aug 22
Sleep apnea in middle age raises heart disease
risk Scientific American
Sleep Apnea Ups Stroke Risk in Elderly
WebMD
Sleep Apnea in
Children Linked to Lower IQ Scores, Learning ...
Lex 18, KY - (HealthDay News) --
Sleep apnea harms
children's brains, study finds
CBC.ca
Sleep Apnea
Linked To Lower IQ Levels In Kids
All Headline News
Childhood Sleep
Apnea Linked to Brain Damage Ivanhoe
WebMD -
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Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Associates with
Neuropsychological Deficits and Neuronal Brain Injury.
 
Links
UC study:
Asthma can lead to sleep apnea in young women
Milwaukee Business
Journal, WI - Aug 20, 2006
Sleep Apnea
Raises Truckers' Crash Risk Forbes -
Aug 18, 2006
Sleep Disturbances Result in Chronic Pain in Healthy Women
U.S. Newswire (press release), DC
Sleep apnea
affects many who don't know they have the disorder
Thousand Oaks Acorn, USA
Snoring, sleep
apnea rarely diagnosed
United Press International
Insomniacs are More Likely to Experience Daytime Symptoms Such as
Negative Mood, Fatigue
U.S. Newswire (press
release), DC
Majority of
OSA patients not using CPAP on a Regular Daily Basis: Study
U.S. Newswire (press
release), DC
Many
frustrated with sleep apnea mask
United Press International
Referrals of Pediatric OSA Patients to Sleep Specialists Has
Increased: Study
U.S. Newswire (press
release), DC
Severe Hot Flashes Associated With Chronic Insomnia
Science Daily (press release)
Snoring Costs Over $88 Billion in Lost
Productivity, Health Care Costs
Insurance Journal -
June 8, 2006
"Patients who suffer from snoring and sleep apnea also may
be suffering from depression and anxiety, and could have trouble
concentrating at work, according to a new study. The result -- a
cost to the U.S. economy of more than $88 billion in lost
productivity and health care costs."
Breathing Masks Decrease Blood Pressure in People with Sleep Apnea
"DG News - Jun 1, 2006
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- June 1, 2006 -- Patients with the nighttime
breathing disorder known as obstructive sleep apnea who receive air
through a mask while they sleep can significantly reduce their blood
pressure, according to a study to be presented at the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference on May 22nd. "
New AHA
Guidelines Link Sleep Apnea and Stroke Risk (medpagetoday.com)
"DURHAM, N.C., May 8 — Certain patients at high risk for stroke
should be evaluated for sleep apnea, new prevention guidelines from
the American Heart Association (AHA) suggest."
the updated AHA stroke prevention guidelines are available at
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/strokeaha;37/3/753
Source reference:
Larry Goldstein et al.
"Primary Prevention of ischemic stroke. A guideline from the
American Heart Association/American Stroke Associations stroke
council." Stroke. Advanced online publication May 5,
2006.
Sleep Apnea
Tests Advised for Down's Children
Down syndrome,
sleep trouble linked
Sleep Apnea
Raises Arrhythmia Risk
Spotting Sleep
Apnea
The brain's
role in sleep apnea
CPAP May
Reverse Cardiac Symptoms in Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea
Treatment Strengthens Heart
Kids of
Snoring Parents More Likely to Snore, Have ADHD
Children who
snore could face other problems
Shape and
function of the heart improves with apnea treatment
Sleep Apnea
Awareness
WebMD
Daily Video - Sleep Apnea
Kids' Chronic Headache and Sleeplessness Go
Hand-in-Hand
(Forbes - Jan 27, 2006)
Sleep problems common among kids with
headache
(Reuters - Jan 30, 2006)
Auto insurer spends $188K to battle sleep disorders (CBC
Saskatchewan, Canada - Feb 7, 2006)
Auto insurer spends $188K to help keep drowsy drivers off
the road
(CBC British Columbia
(Audio), Canada)
Can marriages be
saved by treating snoring?
(News-Medical.net)
Does snoring spell divorce? (Globe and
Mail, Canada - Feb 2, 2006)
CPAP Merely Palliative in Obstructive Sleep
Apnea Dec 2005 [Medscape
(subscription)]
"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Dec 21 -
Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with nasal
continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) "is not a
solution to the problem," researchers report in the
December issue of the Annals of Neurology. The real
problem is the underlying neurological lesions that cause
disordered breathing and the solution, they say, is
prevention of progression of OSA....
Summing up, he added that it is
important to know the size and extent of the underlying
neurological lesion before surgery. It is also "important
to realize that nasal CPAP is not a complete solution and
that non-compliance is a major problem... surgery may be a
better solution."
Is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome a
neurological disorder? A continuous positive airway pressure
follow-up study.
Ann Neurol. 2005 Dec;58(6):880-7.
PMID: 16240364 [PubMed - in process]
Guilleminault C, Huang YS, Kirisoglu C, Chan A.
“Over 5 years, we
managed healthy, nonobese subjects compliant with nasal
CPAP...... By the completion of the study, all subjects
required an increase in nasal CPAP (1-7cm H(2)O) and
demonstrated abnormal two-point palatal discrimination
compared with control subjects. Despite initial control of
clinical symptoms with regular usage of nasal CPAP in
subjects without weight change, abnormal sensory palatal
evaluation was present at the conclusion of the study.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome involves abnormal upper
airway sensory input, which may be responsible for the
development of apneas and hypopneas. These neurological
lesions are persistent despite nasal CPAP treatment. Ann
Neurol 2006.”
Sleep Apnea Treatment Reduces Risk of Stroke and Early Death
Southern Pines Pilot, NC -
Dec 21, 2005
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Sick and tired: Sleep disorders
are taking a toll
(deseretnews.com)
Sunday, January 8, 2006
"Often, it's hard to
convince people their poor-quality sleep is affecting them.
"They think they function just fine. But in alertness or
concentration tests, they usually score below normal," says
Dr. Gregory P. Dupont, a pulmonologist and sleep specialist
at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center."
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Standard treatment best for sleep apnea
myDNA.com, TX - Dec 19,
2005 |
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Night peril: undiagnosed sleep apnea
"Years later,
the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University
of Connecticut Health Center was acting as a test subject
for some new equipment in his own laboratory when a
technician woke him in the night and told him he had sleep
apnea"
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Didgeridoo helps those who snore
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA -
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More couples sleeping in double beds, survey
says
AZ Central.com, AZ - Dec
21, 2005
"Thus the blooming of sleep-study clinics.
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, there
are now more than 800 accredited centers in the United
States."
Snoring can hurt intimacy
(United Press
International)
"Out of more than 1,000
men and women surveyed,
81 percent of the
partners of snorers said they don't get a good night's sleep
and are constantly tired, making them less likely to have
the energy for intimacy," says Dr. Michael Gelb,
director of the Gelb Center in New York. "Of those snoring
couples, researchers said 70 percent resort to sleeping in
separate bedrooms to get some rest and holiday alcohol
consumption can make the problem worse."
Sleep problems plague
older population
(Argus
Leader
- Life) 12/26/05
"A recent Gallup poll of
people age 50 and older found that two-thirds have trouble
sleeping, with 8 percent reporting they never get a good
night’s sleep. Twenty percent said they sleep less than six
hours a night."
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Obesity, High Blood Pressure Impacting Many
U.S. Adults Ages 55-64
(Press Release- Dec 8, 2005)
CDC Press
"Half of Americans aged
55-64 have high blood pressure – a major risk factor for
heart disease and stroke – and two in five are obese,
according to Health, United States, 2005, the
government’s annual report to the President and Congress on
the health of all Americans. The report was prepared by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National
Center for Health Statistics from data gathered by state and
federal health agencies and through ongoing national
surveys."
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Sleep Apnea, Blood Pressure Linked (Newswise) Dec 11-2005
"Ubunama's suggestions are
based on results of a study funded by the National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute and presented last month at the
American Heart Association annual meeting.
“We found a direct
relationship between the severity of sleep apnea and
cardiovascular changes associated with high blood pressure.”
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Waking up to sleep problems
- NorthJersey.com, NJ
"The search for deep,
uninterrupted, refreshing sleep has become a national
obsession. It's driving everything from the development of
new prescription sleeping pills to extensive bed makeovers
in hotel chains."
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Increased Prevalence Of Atrial
Fibrillation Found In Patients With Central Sleep Apnea
(medicalnewstoday.com) 01-03-2006
"Results of a study show an increased prevalence of
atrial fibrillation
(AF) among patients with idiopathic central sleep apnea
in the absence of congestive
heart failure. The study compared 60 idiopathic central
sleep apnea (CSA) patients with control groups of 60
obstructive sleep apnea patients and 60 patients without a
sleep-related breathing disorder, matched for age, sex and
body mass index."
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