Personalizing Population Health
Innovator Azizi A. Seixas, PhD, uses real-world data and AI to make sleep medicine and health equity accessible.
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Shift Work in Early Life Negatively Affects Sleep and Mental Health in Midlife
A study analyzing data from over 7,000 individuals over 30 years found that nonstandard work schedules in early adulthood are linked to poorer health outcomes
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Race Adjustments for Pulse Oximeters Insufficient, Study Finds
While decades of published research have shown that pulse oximeters can give biased readings for...
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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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Sleep Issues Common Among Those With Long COVID
Researchers investigated sleep disturbances and their severity in long COVID patients, also discovering that Black patients were significantly more likely to be affected.
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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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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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Minority and Low-Income Sleep Gap May Be Tied to Disproportionately Higher Disease Prevalence
People in these groups face higher risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other chronic conditions. Lack of sleep may help drive these disparities.
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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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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 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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