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Night-shift workers should keep their distance from coffee machines if they wish to have quality sleep, researchers have said. Julie Carrier, a Université de Montréal psychology professor and a researcher at the affiliated Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur Sleep Disorders Centre, discovered that coffee’s main by-product caffeine meddles with sleep. The lead investigator of the study further [...]

Sleep apnea, both obstructive and central, and other types of sleep disordered breathing are significant risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to study findings presented this week at the CHEST 2009 meeting in San Diego, California. “We found that patients with sleep disordered breathing are almost twice as likely to get VTE. The risk [...]

Golfers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can lower their scores by treating their OSA with nasal positive airway pressure (NPAP), according to study findings presented this week at the CHEST 2009 meeting in San Diego, California. After a few months of NPAP, a dozen golfers saw their average handicap fall from 12.4 to 11.0 (p [...]

Sleep apnea is a common disorder that often goes undiagnosed. If left untreated, it can result in serious health problems. For years, Scott Wiles suffered the symptoms. “I had migraines for probably eight years to where I’d black out and wouldn’t be able to see,” he explained. “It started affecting my hearing real bad. I’d [...]

A computer scientist from the University of Houston and a doctor of sleep medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have teamed up to create a new, less invasive method of diagnosing sleep apnea. Their findings appear in the November issue of the journal Sleep. Sleep apnea is serious disorder that [...]

What you’re not doing once retired seems to make a good night’s sleep come more easily. A study of nearly 15,000 French workers who had retired found that the odds of having disturbed sleep in the seven years after retirement were 26 percent lower than in the seven years before they stopped working. Sleep improvements [...]

Giving sedatives during continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration will improve patients’ subsequent compliance, researchers report in the November issue of Chest. “Obstructive sleep apnea is becoming increasingly prevalent,” lead investigator Dr. Christopher J. Lettieri told Reuters Health. “CPAP remains the treatment of choice for most patients. Unfortunately many people are intolerant of CPAP initially [...]