Childhood Insomnia Persists at Higher Rates in Minority Groups
Children and teens from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by persistent insomnia symptoms that begin in childhood and continue through young adulthood.
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Harmony Announces Newest Patients and Progress at the Heart Award Recipients
Harmony Biosciences has chosen the newest recipients of its Patients at the Heart and Progress at the Heart awards, offering financial backing to projects tackling issues faced by those with sleep disorders and rare neurological conditions.
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Sleep Wearables Could Bridge the Gap in Sleep Health for Marginalized Populations
New research highlights the potential of wearable sleep devices to improve sleep health among marginalized populations and identifies possible barriers to the acceptance and adoption of wearable technologies.
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Initiative Tackles Sleep Apnea at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Nexus Dental Systems launched a national initiative to screen, test, and treat obstructive sleep apnea in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities community.
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Sleep Apnea Tests May Underestimate Severity in Black Patients
With the impact of skin pigmentation on oximetry results in mind, investigators aimed to determine if the same effect would be observed in tests for obstructive sleep apnea.
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How One Patient’s Textured Hair Nearly Kept Her From a Needed EEG
Requirements to remove hair extensions, braids, cornrows, and wigs and avoid styling products the night before the appointment could discourage people with thick, curly, and textured hair from going forward with an EEG.
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What Might Be Obstructing Your Patient’s CPAP Adherence
Insidious factors impact sleep disorder screening, diagnosis, treatment, and surprisingly, even the likelihood of a sleep disorder as seemingly based on a physical blockage as OSA.
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Sleep Improvement Program Targets Indigenous Adolescents in Queensland
A program led by The University of Queensland aims to deliver culturally responsive sleep health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents.
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AASM, CHEST Grant Winner to Research Sleep Apnea Phenotype in Latin American Women
Applications for the 2023 grant cycle are now open to AASM or CHEST members.
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Minority Patients Significantly Less Likely to Be Prescribed Insomnia Medication
The findings highlight a need for further research on disparities in sleep care and the factors that influence clinician decision-making, according to researchers.
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Sleep Disturbances Common in Patients Who Recovered from COVID
“Sleep difficulties are are highly prevalent and debilitating symptoms reported in patients with post-acute sequealae of COVID-19.”
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Sleep Apnea-Related Deaths Have Been Stable for About a Decade—Except in Black Men, Where Mortality Continues to Rise
The death of black men from sleep apnea has continued to rise, in contrast to rates that have flattened for white people and Black females.
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Sleep Health During COVID-19: National Sleep Foundation Analysis
The sleep health analysis gives a broad picture of the nation’s sleep health across two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Study Finds Racial-Ethnic Differences in Sleep Health
“It’s not just identification of the problem, but also that there are some pre-existing solutions,” says one of the authors.
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Sleep Apnea IDed as Risk Factor for Intracerebral Hemorrhage
A public health measure to lower risk factors could pay for itself by reducing the number of intracerebral hemorrhage cases.
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Sleep Duration Buffers Effects of Adversity Among Recently Immigrated Latinx Adolescents
Youth reported greater symptoms of posttraumatic avoidance when they had been exposed to childhood neglect, but this effect disappeared when sleep duration was high.
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Poor Sleep Predicts Long-term Cognitive Decline in Hispanics More Than in Whites
“This was like a natural experiment in which we removed the effect that obesity has on cognition and saw ‘the pure effect’ of sleep difficulties, such as sleep apnea, and long sleep duration on cognitive health.”
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