Sleep Disorder

HONOLULU — Established and evolving treatments are available to help women with insomnia, the prevalence, symptoms and outcomes of with may vary and intensify with age, according to a speaker at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Women who reported sleep difficulties or sleeping less than 6 hours per day were more likely to develop hypertension compared with women who slept 7 to 8 hours, with shift work not affecting the association, researchers reported.

Good adherence to continuous positive airway pressure therapy may reduce risk for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events in secondary prevention of CVD in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Machine learning may be an effective tool for screening individuals who develop REM sleep behavior disorder and subsequent neurodegenerative conditions, Yoav N. Nygate, said in this Healio video.

Research supports an association between sleep and brain health, and suggests that people who have consistent difficulty initiating and staying asleep may be negatively impacted.

WASHINGTON — Adults with central sleep apnea on adaptive servo-ventilation for 12 months had improved disease-specific quality of life, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

WASHINGTON — Positive airway pressure device compliance went down 90 days after a clinic visit among patients with Down syndrome, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

INDIANAPOLIS — Sleep subtyping can help identify patients at greater risk for developing atrial fibrillation, according to Catherine Heinzinger, DO, in a Healio video from SLEEP 2023.

INDIANAPOLIS — Compared with siblings, survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk for sleep concerns up to 30 years after diagnosis, according to a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.