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Proper sleep isn’t merely nice to have; it’s essential to good health. The benefits of sleep have long been acknowledged and include fewer illnesses, maintaining a healthy weight, lowering risk for serious illness such as like diabetes and heart disease, reducing stress, improving mood, and thinking...
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Preventing the deaths of Veterans, whether accidental overdoses or suicides, is a high priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The statistics are awful: in the United States, about 17 Veterans a day kill themselves. A committee has been formed to examining the dangers of Veterans taking...
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In a systemic literature review searching for occurrences of “Insomnia,” “sleep complaints,” “myocardial infarction,” etc, over 1.1 million adults were assessed for the relationship between sleep issues and instances of MI. Patients with insomnia were at 1.69 times greater risk for the development...
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A retrospective study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine explored the connections between/among sleep disorders, cisgender youth, trans- or gender nonconforming (TGNF) individuals, gender-affirming therapy (GAT), and transitioning. Over 1.2 million people (aged 12-25), 2,600 of whom...
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Over 35 clinical studies from journal articles and meta-analyses were included in a literature review of chronic migraine’s impact on the quality of sleep. In the journal of Nature and Science of Sleep, common sleep disturbances were analyzed to determine the relationship to chronic migraine.
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If you’re a patient in pain, and your doctor is sleep deprived, you may be underprescribed analgesics. According to researchers publishing their findings in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), practitioner empathy is more than a small part of prescribing. Studying systematic bias...
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JAMA Network Open examined the diets and activity levels of normal weight patients or those either postbariatric surgery or eligible for surgery. Over 4600 patients were culled from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-2018. Bariatric surgery decreased obesity, heart disease...
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A study in the American Chemical Society’s Applied Materials & Interfaces journal brings to light a smart pillow capable of monitoring head movements during sleep. Pain can cause disturbed sleep, and poor sleep can cause pain. Mental health issues, heart disease, and diabetes can be affected by poor...
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A study in Scientific Reports states that “Approximately 39% of the population has at least one sign or symptom of a temporomandibular disorder (TMD), and 25% have pain related to a TMD.” In addition, “…poor sleep quality is found in 60.3% of patients with TMD.” But does the deterioration of sleep...
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In a study published in the journal Environment International, researchers analyzed the impact of green space on premenstrual symptoms (PMS). Around one-fifth of women experience clinically relevant symptoms both physical and psychological. The study probed the effect of living in an area with green...