Sleep

Individuals with moderate/severe obstructive sleep apnea more commonly had floppy eyelid syndrome, shorter tear breakup time and higher ocular redness scores than those with normal/mild OSA, according to a study.

Children who regularly get 10 or more hours of sleep per night transitioned more successfully to kindergarten than peers with worse sleeping patterns, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Higher sleep scores were associated with lower mortality hazard, according to a study presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.

Results of a literature review published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed a complex correlation between chronic inflammatory skin disease, such as atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, and sleep loss.

An updated American Heart Association checklist that now includes sleep health metrics showed about 80% of U.S. adults have low to moderate CV health, with lowest scores occurring in the areas of diet, physical activity and BMI.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Results from the Wake Up America poll showed that practitioners do not often ask patients about insomnia, and patients may be hesitant to discuss it, Andrew Krystal, MD, MS, said at the SLEEP meeting.

In a cohort of healthy young adult men, one night of sleep deprivation attenuated the adaptation to recurrent hypoglycemia by preserving neuroendocrine counterregulation and subjective awareness, according to study findings.

Young adults with type 1 diabetes have more diabetes distress symptoms with shorter sleep time, lower sleep efficiency and higher sleep variability, according to a study published in The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care.

Approximately 75% of men reported losing sleep after staying up late to play video games, and 62% of men say they have lost sleep due to staying up to drink alcohol, survey results presented at SLEEP 2022 showed.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is a “feasible and acceptable” treatment for people regularly using cannabis to help with sleep, J. Todd Arnedt, PhD, said at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.