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Topics from 12/22/2009
Sleep In The News
| RLS ends Neal win-streak |
| Andalusia Star-News - 12/15/2009 |
| Class 2A Red Level ended Class 4A WS Neal's four-game win streak Monday night in the Tigers' home debut, ... ... |
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| Just Plain Tired: The Professor's Tale |
| Huffington Post (blog) - 12/16/2009 |
| He finally scheduled me for an "overnight" sleep apnea test. It was discovered that I had sleep apnea and was put on a c-pap machine to regulate my ... ... |
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| Military: Burn pits could cause long-term damage to troops |
| CNN International - 12/18/2009 |
| Service members have complained of symptoms ranging from chronic bronchitis, asthma, sleep apnea, chronic coughs and allergy-like symptoms to more severe ... ... |
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| J&J to pay $785 million for sinus-surgery company |
| Reuters - 12/16/2009 |
| ... sinuplasty technology and other innovative products offer an alternative to conventional surgical approaches, including treatment of sleep apnea. ... ... |
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| Children's Sleep Problems May Be Tied to Headaches, Stomach Pain |
| U.S. News & World Report (blog) - 12/16/2009 |
| And 19 percent of children with insomnia had problems with regurgitation, compared with 7.5 percent of children without sleep problems. ... ... |
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| Health Buzz: Researchers Crack Gene Code of Melanoma and Lung Cancer |
| U.S. News & World Report - 12/17/2009 |
| And 19 percent of children with insomnia had problems with regurgitation, compared with 7.5 percent of children without sleep problems. ... ... |
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| Puberty May Trigger Sleep Apnea in Overweight Kids |
| U.S. News & World Report - 12/15/2009 |
| 15 (HealthDay News) -- Among teenagers, being overweight or obese increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnea, but the same does not appear to be true for ... ... |
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| Actelion: Insomnia drug progresses; more study set |
| MarketWatch - 12/20/2009 |
| ... almorexant "demonstrated clinically meaningful effects on both sleep induction and sleep maintenance for patients suffering from primary insomnia," said ... ... |
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| Insomnia Symptoms Linked With Medical Complaints in Young School-Aged Children |
| Science Daily (press release) - 12/15/2009 |
| After controlling for demographic variables; apnea-hypopnea index; learning, psychiatric and behavioral disorders; and socioeconomic and minority status, ... ... |
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| Obesity Increases the Risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adolescents, but Not ... |
| Science Daily (press release) - 12/15/2009 |
| 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that being overweight or obese increases the risk for developing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in ... ... |
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| Steelers Wake Mall Shoppers Up To Sleep Apnea |
| ThePittsburghChannel.com - 12/16/2009 |
| Some Pittsburgh Steelers and ESPN 1250 Radio members went to Ross Park Mall on Tuesday night to spread the word about sleep apnea, an increasingly ... ... |
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| Insomnia BR's newest hot spot |
| 2TheAdvocate - 12/20/2009 |
| The answer is Insomnia, Baton Rouge's newest party spot. Located on Cortana Place, between Cortana Mall and Florida Boulevard where it intersects Airline ... ... |
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| Jeray wins tour card again after battling narcolepsy |
| Dekalb Daily Chronicle - 12/20/2009 |
| But after the paralyzing moment in 1996, Jeray went to a doctor where she was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a chronic neurological disorder caused by the ... ... |
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| Insomnia - My enemy is back |
| ChicagoNow (blog) - 12/17/2009 |
| The others are a little bit harder to address, depression, anxiety, sleep apnea, and stress. The key to beating these is not giving up and trying a few self ... ... |
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| A review a day: Insomnia Café |
| Comic Book Resources - 12/18/2009 |
| I mentioned to him that I was looking forward to Insomnia Café, and he acted as if he had never heard of it, even though it's his graphic novel. ... ... |
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| ACS Expedited Solutions Makes Highways Safer |
| Layover.com - 12/18/2009 |
| DALLAS- ACS Expedited Solutions today announced a new fleet solution offering carriers a complete sleep apnea safety compliance reporting system. ... ... |
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| Shooting Causes Chaos at Club in Beaufort |
| WSAV-TV - 12/20/2009 |
| Beaufort Police were called to Club Insomnia at 2247 Boundary Street around 2:00 am Officers arrived to find chaos as dozens of ... ... |
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| Guidepoint Global Launches Sleep Apnea Market Tracker |
| Sleep Review - 12/16/2009 |
| Guidepoint Global LLC, New York, launched Sleep Apnea Tracker—a monthly longitudinal data release that monitors and projects trends and market share in the ... ... |
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| Urine test for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea possible |
| Behavioral Health Central (blog) - 12/17/2009 |
| Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered a technique that is able to determine whether a child has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or habitual ... ... |
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| Philips Respironics: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 |
| IndustryWeek - 12/16/2009 |
| The Murrysville plant produces six product lines, including CPAP and BiPAP devices for people with sleep apnea, a problem affecting some 12 million adults ... ... |
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New Sleep Science Articles from the past week
| Adipokines in children with obstructive sleep apnea and the effects of treatment. |
| Li AM, Ng C, Ng SK, Chan MM, So HK, Chan I, Lam CW, Ng PC, Wing YK. |
| Chest |
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| Narcolepsy and Behcet's disease: Report of a Chinese-Taiwanese Case. |
| Hsieh CF, Lai CL, Liu CK, Lan SH, Hsieh SW, Hsu CY. |
| Sleep medicine |
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| Sleep-related periodic respiration with central sleep apnea in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON). |
| Vetrugno R, Valentino ML, Morgia CL, Liguori R, Stecchi S, Mascalchi M, Fabbri M, Montagna P, Carelli V. |
| Sleep medicine |
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| Roles of Parental Sleep/Wake Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Daytime Activities in the Sleep/Wake Patterns of Children. |
| Zhang J, Li AM, Fok TF, Wing YK. |
| The Journal of pediatrics |
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| REM sleep behavior disorder in 703 sleep-disorder patients: The importance of eliciting a comprehensive sleep history. |
| Frauscher B, Gschliesser V, Brandauer E, Marti I, Furtner MT, Ulmer H, Poewe W, Högl B. |
| Sleep medicine |
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| Sleep-disordered breathing symptoms frequency and growth among prematurely born infants. |
| Montgomery-Downs HE, Young ME, Ross MA, Polak MJ, Ritchie SK, Lynch SK. |
| Sleep medicine |
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| Asymptomatic Sleep-disordered Breathing in Premenopausal Women Awaiting Bariatric Surgery. |
| Lecube A, Sampol G, Lloberes P, Romero O, Mesa J, Morell F, Simó R. |
| Obesity surgery |
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| Utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment in Pediatric Obesity to Quantify Behavior, Emotion, and Sleep. |
| Rofey DL, Hull EE, Phillips J, Vogt K, Silk JS, Dahl RE. |
| Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) |
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| Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Masked Hypertension, and Arterial Stiffness in Men. |
| Drager LF, Diegues-Silva L, Diniz PM, Bortolotto LA, Pedrosa RP, Couto RB, Marcondes B, Giorgi DM, Lorenzi-Filho G, Krieger EM. |
| American journal of hypertension |
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| Automated Prediction of Apnea and Hypopnea Using a LAMSTAR Artificial Neural Network. |
| Waxman JA, Graupe D, Carley DW. |
| American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine |
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| Impact of Untreated Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes. |
| Aronsohn RS, Whitmore H, Van Cauter E, Tasali E. |
| American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine |
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| The Effect of Measuring Ambulatory Blood Pressure on Nighttime Sleep and Daytime Activity--Implications for Dipping. |
| Agarwal R, Light RP. |
| Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN |
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| Effects of pain management on sleep in preterm infants. |
| Axelin A, Kirjavainen J, Salanterä S, Lehtonen L. |
| European journal of pain (London, England) |
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| Measurement of non-restorative sleep in insomnia: A review of the literature. |
| Vernon MK, Dugar A, Revicki D, Treglia M, Buysse D. |
| Sleep medicine reviews |
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| Altered sleep architecture and higher incidence of subsyndromal depression in low endogenous melatonin secretors. |
| Rahman SA, Marcu S, Kayumov L, Shapiro CM. |
| European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience |
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| Spironolactone reduces severity of obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with resistant hypertension: a preliminary report. |
| Gaddam K, Pimenta E, Thomas SJ, Cofield SS, Oparil S, Harding SM, Calhoun DA. |
| Journal of human hypertension |
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| Impaired sleep quality in fibromyalgia: Detection and quantification with ECG-based cardiopulmonary coupling spectrograms. |
| Thomas RJ, Mietus JE, Peng CK, Goldberger AL, Crofford LJ, Chervin RD. |
| Sleep medicine |
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| [Nicotine as an antidepressant and regulator of sleep in subjects with depression.] |
| Vieyra-Reyes P, Venebra-Munoz A, Rivas-Santiago B, Garcia-Garcia F. |
| Revista de neurologia |
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| [Disturbances of slow-wave sleep and psychiatric disorders.] |
| Doerr JP, Hirscher V, Riemann D, Voderholzer U. |
| Der Nervenarzt |
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| Evaluation of Subclinical Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients Using Velocity Vector Imaging. |
| Tugcu A, Yildirimtürk O, Tayyareci Y, Demiroglu C, Aytekin S. |
| Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society |
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