Sleep Medicine News

Adults with obesity who lost weight while dieting struggled to maintain their weight loss if they slept less than 6 hours per night, according to findings presented at the European Congress on Obesity.

Men with overweight or obesity and moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea receiving CPAP assigned to undergo an interdisciplinary weight loss and lifestyle intervention had improved outcomes and health-related quality of life.

Digital therapeutics company Big Health has announced a partnership with the University of Oxford for a new study evaluating Sleepio, an online program designed to improve sleep and mental health for stroke patients.

Sleep breathing sounds recorded via smartphone yielded fair prediction of obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.

CHICAGO — In this video, Sheila Tsai, MD, a sleep medicine physician at National Jewish Health in Denver, discusses how to screen, diagnose and treat obstructive sleep apnea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome.

Patients with more severe obstructive sleep apnea, measured by the apnea-hypopnea index, were more likely to have incident venous thromboembolism, researchers reported in Chest.

A new study published in Sleep Medicine highlights an uptrend in sleep-related mortality and associated cardiovascular disease outcomes among Black men in the U.S.

Researchers identified significant U-shaped associations between sleep duration and cardiovascular mortality, 10-year atherosclerotic CVD risk and C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation.

A week of physical inactivity has the same negative mental impact as a week of broken sleep, a study by sports equipment company Asics revealed.

The U.S. Senate recently passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023.