Post-Pandemic Sleep Disturbance Remains Widespread
New research highlights the persistence of sleep issues following the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, regardless of infection history.
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Sleep Tracker Data Reveals How Changes in Sleep Patterns Predict Health Risks
Researchers identified five sleep types, and the way people move between these types yields insights into both chronic and acute conditions.
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The Disconnect of CPAPs Without Chips (Editor’s Message)
While fully functional to treat sleep-disordered breathing, CPAPs without these cloud-connectivity chips lack remote monitoring for clinicians and digital health solutions for patients. Sleep professionals now find themselves searching for ways to manage the shortage.
Adults with Sleep Apnea Face Substantially Increased Risk of Long COVID
The research suggests close monitoring after a COVID-19 infection may help adults with sleep apnea.
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Sleep Disturbance Likely Drives Breathlessness in Post-COVID Patients
Disturbed sleep patterns in COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the UK were found to be a driver of breathlessness, highlighting the potential for interventions targeting poor sleep quality to manage symptoms and convalescence following COVID-19 hospitalization.
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How COVID Can Disturb Your Sleep and Dreams—And What Could Help
A second wave of data is beginning to explain how becoming infected with COVID is affecting our sleep and even intruding into our dreams.
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Cerebra Gets Manitoba Contract for 1,000 Home Sleep Tests to Tackle COVID-19 Backlog
The pandemic impacted sleep study wait lists, and this is an opportunity to leverage locally developed technology to help Manitobans.
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Can Sleep Reactivity Predict Individuals’ Stress Reactions During a Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic offered researchers a rare opportunity to see the effects of a potentially distressing global event on people with sleep reactivity, that is, those who are vulnerable to stress-related sleep disturbances.
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Shift Work, Despite Same Infection Risk, Linked to Worse COVID Outcomes
An international group of researchers investigated how shift work affects the risk of COVID-19 and the severity of the infection.
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Supply Chain Shortages (and the Pandemic More Generally) Rejigger HST Landscape
How sleep businesses have adjusted their mix of home sleep testing devices and consumables.
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How Global Warming Can Mess with People’s Sleep, Immune Systems
A new research paper from Michael Irwin, MD, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, looks at the wide-reaching health implications of global warming.
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Study: How COVID Infected Our Dreams
A recent study found that COVID-19 survivors were more likely to have nightmares than healthy people.
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Social Support Boosts Sleep Quality in MS Patients
A new study from the University of Kansas shows that for people with multiple sclerosis, who often deal with sleep difficulty, having social support was key to predicting sleep quality.
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Should You Add Telehealth to Your Dental Sleep Medicine Practice?
Dentists share the promises and pitfalls of incorporating telehealth into their dental sleep medicine practices, from streamlining workflow to accommodating those patients who are not tech-savvy.
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COVID Insomnia: Here’s How Viruses Can Change Our Sleeping Patterns
While we are still learning about the specific effects of COVID on sleep, we do know about what happens to sleep with other viral infections.
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The Evolution of Dental Sleep Medicine with Mitchell Levine
Mitchell Levine, DMD, ABDSM, was recently installed as president of AADSM. He discusses how COVID has changed the practice of dental sleep medicine, the role of telehealth, a consensus statement about oral appliance compliance, and more.
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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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Can COVID-19 Cause Insomnia and Other Sleep Problems?
Coined “coronasomnia,” COVID-19-induced insomnia is often attributed to pandemic-related stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions.
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