Sleep Medicine News

Adolescents who sleep fewer than 8 hours on school nights are more likely to engage in several risk-taking behaviors, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics. However, teens who get fewer than 6 hours of sleep are at significantly higher risk for considering, planning and attempting suicide, researchers said.

Sleeping between 7 and 8 hours a night led to better cognitive function than sleeping more or less than that amount, according to findings recently published in Sleep.

Black men who sleep for a short amount of time had a decreased risk for incident stroke, and white men with longer sleep duration had an increased risk for incident stroke, according to a study published in Neurology.

Among perimenopausal women with depressive symptoms, light therapy combined with other sleep interventions improved mood and sleep scores in as few as 2 weeks, according to findings from a preliminary study presented at the North American Menopause Society annual meeting.

Midlife women who report experiencing workplace sexual harassment are more than twice as likely to develop stage 1 or 2 hypertension and clinically poor sleep vs. women not experiencing such behavior, whereas women who report sexual assault are more likely to develop depression and anxiety compared with women who have not been sexually assaulted, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine and presented at the North American Menopause Society annual meeting.

Digital cognitive behavioral therapy significantly improved symptoms, functional health, psychological well-being and sleep-related quality of life among people with insomnia, study findings reported in JAMA Psychiatry showed.

Children with obesity and sleep-disordered breathing are more likely to have persistent sleep conditions into adolescence vs. children without obesity, whereas children who lose weight are more likely to experience remission of sleep-disordered breathing symptoms, according to study findings published in Pediatric Obesity.

A two-item model called No-Apnea was a “useful and practical tool” for obstructive sleep apnea screening in health care setting with limited resources to conduct a referral evaluation, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Nearly half of American teenagers report sleep difficulties that affect their daily functioning, according to findings published in the Journal of Adolescence. Exhaustion from lack of sleep can lead to negative health outcomes, including depression, obesity and accidental injury.

In adults with type 2 diabetes, sleep quality scales can serve as useful tools for predicting obstructive sleep apnea, with similar predictive values observed across various questionnaires, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes.