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.
"It’s not just identification of the problem, but also that there are some pre-existing solutions," says one of the authors.
Increased minority representation should translate into better understanding of how heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders should help reduce health disparities.
Read More“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 MoreInventum: 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 MorePenn 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.
Read MoreA study characterized sleep-wake patterns in infants at 1- and 6-months old using ankle-placed actigraphs and parent-completed sleep diaries.
Read MoreBlack Americans are disproportionately impacted by cardiovascular disease and untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) might be partially to blame.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreAdequate sleep can help teens navigate challenging social situations.
Read MoreAfrican Americans with severe sleep apnea and other adverse sleep patterns are much more likely to have high blood glucose levels than those without these patterns.
Read MoreDenise M. O’Driscoll, PhD, and colleagues suspected OSA traits could differ between ethnicities as well, possibly posing challenges in diagnosis and treatment, reports Physician’s Weekly.For a study published...
Read MoreResearchers have discovered that improvements in OSA symptoms appear to be linked to the reduction of fat in one unexpected body part.
Read MoreFor African-Americans, sleep specialist Asefa Jejaw Mekonnen says the potential to develop sleep apnea is particularly high, reports the Montgomery County Sentinel.“Lack of information and lack of access to...
Read MoreThe number of Americans sleeping six hours or fewer each night is on the rise, reports the Smithsonian. According to a new survey of nearly 400,000 individuals’ sleep patterns, 32.9 percent of respondents self-reported a poverty...
Read MoreLight-emitting devices and high stress levels could be contributing to sleep deficits among Americans, especially minorities, reports Science News. Nearly one-third of American adults sleep less than six hours each night, a...
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