Health

Scientists use 'sleep age' to infer long-term health

Numbers tell a story. From your credit score to your age, metrics predict a variety of outcomes, whether it's your likelihood to get a loan or your risk for heart disease. Now, Stanford Medicine researchers have described ...

Health

Nightly sleep disturbance linked to daily risk of migraines

Nearly half of all patients who suffer migraines report sleep disturbance as a trigger for their headaches. But the relationship between sleep and migraine headaches is not well understood or well-studied. Investigators from ...

Health

Dealing with insomnia in late pregnancy

格拉纳达大学领导的研究in which the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) and researchers from the University of Jaen have taken part, reveals that 64 percent of pregnant women suffer from insomnia in the third ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Poor sleep hastens progression of kidney disease

慢性肾脏疾病患者可能是特殊的ly vulnerable to the deleterious effects of poor sleep, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Sleep apnea

Concerns that sleep apnea could impact healthspan

The number of people with obstructive sleep apnea has steadily increased over the past two decades. The disorder, which causes a person to briefly stop breathing when asleep, affects over 100 million people globally and is ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Helping people with Parkinson's get a better night's sleep

A new study at The University of Western Australia may offer hope in alleviating some of the memory and thinking skills problems associated with the debilitating movement disorder, Parkinson's.

Health

Poor sleep in seniors linked to hardened brain arteries

Poor sleep quality in elderly persons is associated with more severe arteriosclerosis in the brain as well as a greater burden of oxygen-starved tissue (infarcts) in the brain - both of which can contribute to the risk of ...

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