Sleep

African American patients with chronic rhinosinusitis had worse sleep quality even after treatment compared with their white counterparts, according to results of a prospective cohort study.

Older adults frequently used medication to treat sleep difficulties, according to study results presented at Psych Congress.

Preoperative presence of REM sleep behavior disorder in patients with Parkinson’s disease did not correlate with different clinical outcome 1 year after subthalamic deep brain stimulation, according to a study published in Neurology.

Children who sleep longer are more likely to have lower BMI and waist circumference, and longer sleep duration and less variability in sleep patterns are associated with lower waist-to-height ratio, according to a presenter.

Researchers found that the circadian system contributes to the common nighttime worsening of asthma, according to data published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Individuals with migraine had much poorer subjective sleep quality and altered sleep architecture vs. healthy individuals, according to results of a meta-analysis published in Neurology.

Menopause-related sleep fragmentation has downstream effects on mood, daytime wellbeing and metabolism, even when women meet recommended guidelines for normal sleep duration, according to a speaker.

Sleeping less or more than 7 hours was significantly associated with an increased mortality risk in men and women, according to an East Asian study published in JAMA Network Open.

While poor sleep quality indicated better social functioning, poor sleep and social functioning were associated with increased psychotic-like experiences in college students, according to a study in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

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.