Sleep Disorder

Healio’s coverage of sleep studies throughout the year highlight the importance of a good night’s rest.

Real-time physiologic consequences of coffee consumption in healthy adults.

Healio Psychiatry’s five most-viewed stories in November highlight the link between alopecia areata and dementia risk, a blood test that may identify Alzheimer’s disease symptoms, and regulatory developments.

A new study highlights an independent association between obstructive sleep apnea and coronary plaque presence and burden, suggesting it may be a risk factor for coronary events.

Young, healthy adults experienced no increase in atrial arrythmias and less supraventricular tachycardia on days they consumed vs. abstained from caffeinated coffee as well as an increase in wearable-measured physical activity in the CRAVE study.

Sleep-related hypoxia may be a risk factor for detrimental COVID-19 outcomes, according to results of a case-control study published in JAMA Network Open.

A speaker at the North American Menopause Society Annual Meeting told attendees that menopause-related sleep fragmentation may negatively impact mood, metabolism and daytime wellbeing. It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

Jonas Salk said, “The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.”

Healthy sleep patterns may be associated with reduced risk for atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter and bradyarrhythmia, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

According to a scientific statement published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, obstructive sleep apnea is common among children and adolescents and may be associated with BP and heart structure.