Sleep Medicine News

A new study demonstrated that obstructive sleep apnea has an acute effect on biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and the ability to measure such biomarkers from blood.

Nocturnal wakefulness, particularly in the overnight hours, was shown to be a significant factor for suicide risk among Australians who committed suicide in 2017, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

An updated American Heart Association checklist that now includes sleep health metrics showed about 80% of U.S. adults have low to moderate CV health, with lowest scores occurring in the areas of diet, physical activity and BMI.

Ongoing continuous positive airway pressure use in the first year after starting therapy was associated with lower risk for all-cause mortality in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, according to research published in Chest.

One year after diagnosis, 12.6% of acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors in South Korea received a new diagnosis of insomnia, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is a “feasible and acceptable” treatment for people regularly using cannabis to help with sleep, J. Todd Arnedt, PhD, said at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.

Among adults with COPD, poorer sleep quality may contribute to risk for future exacerbations, according to new data published in Sleep.

Telemedicine offers the promise of increased efficiency during patient care, but in-person evaluations and relationships are too valuable to completely disregard, according to a debate session at EULAR 2022 Congress.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 50% of patients who came to an academic health care center with cardiac or neurological conditions also were found to have sleep apnea or other sleep disturbances, according to a study presented at SLEEP 2022.

Pediatric melatonin consumption in the United States has risen more than fivefold since 2012, with related hospitalization increasing as well, according to data published Thursday in MMWR.