VIDEO: Sleep physiology and risk for Alzheimer’s, obesity and CV events

ByVirend K. Somers, MD, PhD

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BOSTON — In this Healio video exclusive, Virend K. Somers, MD, PhD, discusses his presentation at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress, “Sleep Disorders and Cardiometabolic Health.”

“During deep sleep, your sympathetic activity goes down significantly, and that fall in sympathetic activity may help open up glymphatic channels in the brain that help drain the waste product out of the brain and may potentially help prevent or mitigate the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Somers, who is the Alice Sheets Marriott professor of cardiovascular medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “That’s one example of how sleep physiology can be closely linked to health outcomes.”

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Somers VK. Session II: Obesity. Presented at: Cardiometabolic Health Congress; Oct. 17-19, 2024; Boston.

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Disclosures: Somers reports consulting for Apnimed, Axsome Therapeutics, Jazz Pharmaceutical, Know Labs and Lilly, and advising for Sleep Number Corp.

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