Poor Sleep Linked to Hardened Blood Vessels, Small Strokes in Seniors-VIDEO
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Poor Sleep Linked to Hardened Blood Vessels, Small Strokes in Seniors
Poor Sleep Linked to Hardened Blood Vessels, Small Strokes in Seniors A Sunnybrook-led study suggests that elderly people who sleep poorly and awaken frequently are more likely to have hardened blood vessels or small strokes in the brain, both of which can contribute to cognitive and motor impairment. Published in...
Chronic Sleep Loss May Cause Brain Damage (VIDEO)
Chronic Sleep Loss May Cause Brain Damage
Chronic Sleep Loss May Cause Brain Damage
A new Penn Medicine study suggests that chronic sleep loss may cause brain damage. Chronic sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought and may even lead to irreversible physical damage to and loss of brain cells.åÊThe research is published today in The Journal of Neuroscience. Sigrid Veasey, MD...
Insomnia May Be Linked to Future Hospitalization, Increased Health Service Use (VIDEO)
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Insomnia May Be Linked to Future Hospitalization, Increased Health Service Use
Having trouble falling or staying asleep? Insomnia may be an important indicator of future hospitalization among middle-aged and older adults, according to a new study published online in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School...
Study Suggests Association Between Sleep Patterns and Nursing Home Placement (VIDEO)
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Study Suggests Association Between Sleep Patterns and Nursing Home Placement?
Older women with disturbed and fragmented sleep were three times more likely to be placed in a long-term care facility than elderly women with healthier sleep patterns.Using statistics from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, investigators studied data of older women who wore devices that monitored sleeping patterns for three days....
Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s? (VIDEO)
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Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s?
Start good sleeping habits young!@Laurence Monneret A preliminary study being presented this month and reported in Web MD suggests that the poorer your sleep, the more likely you may be to develop Alzheimer’s disease. “We found that if people had a lot of awakenings during the night, more than five...