Sleep Medicine News

Data presented at the SLEEP 2016 annual meeting suggested shorter time in bed may have a protective effect against incidence of acute insomnia and therefore chronic insomnia.

Among healthy adults who receive at least 6.5 hours of sleep each night, late sleep timing and dim light melatonin onset were associated with diet quality, particularly fast food intake and especially among men, according to data presented at SLEEP 2016.

Data presented at the SLEEP 2016 annual meeting indicated childhood trauma, including abuse, divorce and parental death, was associated with insomnia in adulthood.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has issued its first ever consensus recommendations on the amount of sleep children and adolescents need to promote optimal health and avoid the risks associated with insufficient sleep.

There is potentially a high, unmet need for screening and treatment for sleep problems in ethnically diverse urban primary care settings, according to data published in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health.

Shift workers may be denied the restorative CV benefits of nocturnal sleep due to sleep loss and circadian misalignment, increasing the risk for CVD, according to study findings published in Hypertension.

The FDA recently granted commercial clearance for the Cerêve Sleep System, a bedside device that cools and pumps fluid to a forehead pad worn through the night, for insomnia.

Researchers found a small percentage of adults in the United States participated in all five key health-related behaviors for the prevention of chronic disease, according to findings published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

In a guideline published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians recommended all adult patients with chronic insomnia receive cognitive behavioral therapy as a first-line treatment. The group also recommended clinicians use a shared approach in deciding whether to incorporate pharmacological therapy in adults for whom cognitive behavioral therapy did not work.

Sleep-disordered breathing adversely affects children’s capacity to attain academic and adaptive goals, and children with more severe symptoms are impacted the most, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society Conference.