Sleep

White individuals who frequently used sleep medication had a greater risk for dementia compared with those who rarely or never used them, though the same association was not found in Black individuals, a new study found.

A healthy sleep pattern, as well as improving sleep habits, were associated with a lower risk for atrial fibrillation recurrence in patients who underwent catheter ablation for AF, researchers reported.

Sleep quality in patients with type 1 diabetes may be improved with disease management as well as interventions supporting resilience and reducing negative emotions, researchers reported in BMC Psychiatry.

Magnesium supplementation for 10 weeks led to no beneficial effects for women with polycystic ovary syndrome experiencing hyperandrogenism, hirsutism and impaired sleep quality, researchers reported in Health Science Reports.

Sleep disturbances were found to be prevalent throughout the course of psychosis, and different psychosis stages showed shared and distinct abnormalities, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Penn Medicine, spoke with Healio about the relationship between COVID-19 and sleep.

For women trying to conceive after one or two pregnancy losses, sleep duration and timing and shift work were not associated with fecundability or odds of live birth, data published in Fertility and Sterility show.

Intermediate or high risk for obstructive sleep apnea was associated with a 50% greater chance of having glaucoma in a population of Singaporean adults, with researchers reporting a twofold greater risk for glaucoma in Malay individuals.

In a prospective study of more than 90,000 participants, short sleep duration and snoring were associated with elevated risk for incident HF.

A technology-assisted behavioral sleep intervention was feasible and acceptable and may be effective for improving sleep duration or regularity for adults with type 1 diabetes, according to data from a pilot study.