Sleep

Consecutive sleep loss predicted poorer daily affective and physical well-being among a large sample of U.S. adults, with well-being declining after one night of sleep loss, according to findings published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Children with obstructive sleep apnea experienced increased risk for future hypertension when the sleep disorder persisted during the developmental transition to adolescence, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology.

The AAP has called for all NICUs to transfer infants to safe sleep environments as soon as medically possible, before being discharged from hospitals.

Sleep represents a “biological necessity” that is “essential to health,” according to a position paper published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Recent cannabis users were more likely to report inadequate sleep durations than individuals who did not recently use cannabis, according to researchers. The association appeared to be stronger in heavy cannabis users.

Charlene Gamaldo, MD, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, received the inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award at SLEEP 2021.

Mean sleep duration increased in 2020 by 5 to 11 minutes in nearly all groups studied, according to an analysis of Fitbit data from more than 163,000 users in six major U.S. cities “particularly hard hit” by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Childhood-onset insomnia symptoms that continued into adulthood served as “strong determinants” of internalizing disorders in young adults, according to findings from a 15-year longitudinal study presented at the virtual SLEEP 2021 meeting.

Difficulty starting sleep had the greatest impact on cognition later in life compared with other symptoms of insomnia, according to study findings from nearly 2,500 patients presented at the virtual SLEEP 2021 meeting.

In this video exclusive, Scott Gabbard, MD, from Cleveland Clinic, discussed a sleep positioning device used to manage gastroesophageal reflux disease in lung transplant recipients.