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Topics from 12/22/2008

Sleep In The News

Tonsillectomy results unaffected by kids' obesity
Reuters - 12/16/2008
Obesity and enlarged tonsils are both linked to interrupted breathing or apnea during sleep in childhood, but the relative importance of one or the other is ...
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Snorers Burn More Calories During the Day
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 12/16/2008
However, the calorie expenditure doesn't seem to be enough to balance the extra weight that often accompanies the condition, also known as sleep apnea. ...
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Research and Markets: Study Analysis of the RLS Market IMS Sales ...
MarketWatch - 12/17/2008
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological condition, which affects 15.5 million medically significant sufferers across the seven major markets (7MM). ...
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Sleep Apnea May Be A Good Thing?
ChattahBox, MA - 12/17/2008
Obesity has been proven to increase the risk of developing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, a disease which causes pauses in breathing or loud snoring ...
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Sleep Apnea Treatment Reduces Nighttime Blood Sugar
MedPage Today, NJ - 12/15/2008
15 -- Patients with type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea who used continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) saw improved glycemic control during the ...
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Study: 60 percent of healthcare professionals don't talk about ...
FierceHealthcare, DC - 12/17/2008
Approximately 30 million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia, but six in 10 doctors don't feel that they have enough time to have a discussion with their ...
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Snoring Intensity Linked To Subjective Measure Of Sleepiness In ...
Science Daily (press release) - 12/15/2008
15, 2008) — A new study shows that objectively measured snoring intensity is correlated with subjective sleepiness independent of the apnea-hypopnea index ...
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New Sleep Science Articles from the past week

Commentary on: The attitudes of general dental practitioners and medical specialists to the provision of intra-oral appliances for the management of snoring and sleep apnoea.
McDonald JP.
Br Dent J. 2008 Dec 20;205(12):647.
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Bird brains key to the functions of sleep.
Gobes SM, Bolhuis JJ.
Science. 2008 Dec 19;322(5909):1789. No abstract available.
 
Melatonin, sleep disturbance and cancer risk.
Blask DE.
Sleep Med Rev. 2008 Dec 16.
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Female impulsive aggression: A sleep research perspective.
Lindberg N, Tani P, Putkonen H, Sailas E, Takala P, Eronen M, Virkkunen M.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2008 Dec 16.
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Comparison of Two Headgear Systems for Sleep Apnea Treatment of Stroke Patients.
Brown DL, Concannon M, Kaye AB, Zupancic M, Lisabeth LD.
Cerebrovasc Dis. 2008 Dec 18;27(2):183-186.
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Identifying people at high risk for developing sleep apnea syndrome (SAS): a cross-sectional study in a Pakistani population.
Taj F, Aly Z, Kassi M, Ahmed M.
BMC Neurol. 2008 Dec 17;8(1):50.
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Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the medical outcomes study sleep scale in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy during an international clinical trial.
Viala-Danten M, Martin S, Guillemin I, Hays RD.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2008 Dec 17;6(1):113.
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Behavioral therapy intervention trial to improve sleep quality and cancer-related fatigue.
Berger AM, Kuhn BR, Farr LA, Lynch JC, Agrawal S, Chamberlain J, Von Essen SG.
Psychooncology. 2008 Dec 17.
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Effects of long-term exposure to ramelteon, a melatonin receptor agonist, on endocrine function in adults with chronic insomnia.
Richardson G, Wang-Weigand S.
Hum Psychopharmacol. 2008 Dec 17.
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Cerebral glucose metabolic response to combined total sleep deprivation and antidepressant treatment in geriatric depression: A randomized, placebo-controlled study.
Smith GS, Reynolds CF 3rd, Houck PR, Dew MA, Ginsberg J, Ma Y, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG.
Psychiatry Res. 2008 Dec 15.
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[Neurobiological consequences of sleep apnea syndrome in children]
Sans-Capdevila O, Gozal D.
Rev Neurol. 2008 Dec 16-31;47(12):659-64. Spanish.
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Sleep in hospitalized medical patients, Part 1: Factors affecting sleep.
Young JS, Bourgeois JA, Hilty DM, Hardin KA.
J Hosp Med. 2008 Dec 15;3(6):473-482.
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Effects of cpap upon oxidative stress and nitrate deficiency in sleep apnoea. a randomized trial.
Alonso-Fernández A, García-Río F, Arias MA, Hernanz A, de la Peña M, Pierola J, Barceló A, López-Collazo E, García AA.
Thorax. 2008 Dec 15.
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Sleep, arousal, and rhythms in flies.
Rosato E, Kyriacou CP.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 16;105(50):19567-8. Epub 2008 Dec 10. No abstract available.
 
SLEEPLESS-ness and Insomnia in Fruit Flies.
Treweek JB, Moreno AY, Janda KD.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2008 Dec 15.
 
Adenosine in the tuberomammillary nucleus inhibits the histaminergic system via A1 receptors and promotes non-rapid eye movement sleep.
Oishi Y, Huang ZL, Fredholm BB, Urade Y, Hayaishi O.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 16;105(50):19992-7. Epub 2008 Dec 9.
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Rods-cones and melanopsin detect light and dark to modulate sleep independent of image formation.
Altimus CM, GĂĽler AD, Villa KL, McNeill DS, Legates TA, Hattar S.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 16;105(50):19998-20003. Epub 2008 Dec 5.
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The attitudes of general dental practitioners and medical specialists to the provision of intra-oral appliances for the management of snoring and sleep apnoea.
Jauhar S, Lyons MF, Banham SW, Orchardson R, Livingston E.
Br Dent J. 2008 Dec 20;205(12):653-7. Epub 2008 Nov 21.
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Rapid alterations in cortical protein profiles underlie spontaneous sleep and wake bouts.
Vazquez J, Hall SC, Witkowska HE, Greco MA.
J Cell Biochem. 2008 Dec 15;105(6):1472-84.
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Sleep duration and coronary heart disease mortality among Chinese adults in Singapore: a population-based cohort study.
Shankar A, Koh WP, Yuan JM, Lee HP, Yu MC.
Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Dec 15;168(12):1367-73. Epub 2008 Oct 23.
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