FDA Clears Pulse Oximeter Ring
The ring is able to accurately measure blood oxygen levels in people with any skin tone, according to a release from the company.
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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 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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Sleep Patterns in Infants, Objectively Measured, Diverge by Race & Ethnicity
Shorter nighttime sleep in Asian infants can’t be explained by socioeconomic factors alone.
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Poor Sleep May Impact Academic Achievement for Children in Disinvested Neighborhoods
A longitudinal study examined the relation between sleep, classroom behavior, and academic achievement scores among primarily Black children growing up in historically disinvested neighborhoods.
Read MoreThe Great Sleep Divide
Sleep deficits are robbing poor people and racial minorities of health and earning power. What can be done?
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APSS Names Inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award
The award presentation occurred Thursday, June 10, during the plenary session of Virtual SLEEP 2021.
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Scientists Sequence Genomes of 53,831 People of Diverse Backgrounds to Better Understand Sleep Disorders & More
Increased minority representation should translate into better understanding of how heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders should help reduce health disparities.
Read MoreTemple Researchers to Explore Sleep & COPD Connection in African Americans
“We are interested in finding out how sleep modifies the effects of smoking behavior on lung health and exercise tolerance in African Americans as compared to Caucasian smokers.”
Read MoreSleep Patterns & Cognitive Decline Linked in Middle-Aged Hispanics
Inventum: Taking longer to fall asleep was associated with lower measures of verbal learning, verbal memory, and other functions over a 7-year study period.
Read MoreRace & Ethnicity May Not Play Role in RLS During Pregnancy
Penn State investigators found differences between different racial and ethnic groups and the prevalence of restless legs syndrome during pregnancy, but they do not believe that race was the cause of the differences.
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Study of Infants: Sleep Differences by Race & Income Emerge Early
A study characterized sleep-wake patterns in infants at 1- and 6-months old using ankle-placed actigraphs and parent-completed sleep diaries.
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STOP-BANG Misses Sleep Apnea in Black Patients
Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by cardiovascular disease and untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) might be partially to blame.
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Women with Young Children & Minority Ethnic Groups Among Those Losing the Most Sleep During Pandemic, Finds UK Study
The pandemic lockdown led to a rise in the number of people experiencing sleeping problems from one in six of the sample to one in four.
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Low Respiratory Arousal Threshold in African Americans with OSA Offers Clues to CPAP Nonadherence
New data shows that over 60% of African American patients evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea have a low respiratory arousal threshold, compared to 30% to 50% in other populations.
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