Sleep Disorder

Robert C. Stowe, MD, an instructor of neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses highlights from the Child Neurology Society annual meeting in this Healio video.

HONOLULU — Heart failure and sleep apnea-related mortality significantly increased over the last 2 decades, with greater risks among the elderly, men and Black individuals, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

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.