While polysomnographers center much of their attention to detecting sleep apnea, especially among more rotund patients, increased duties sometimes center on prevention of other diseases. For example, an inadequate amount of nightly sleep on a recurring basis may help fuel the development of diabetes, according to the results of a study in the ...

Polysomnographers would be derelict in their duties if they had nothing in their arsenal of advice to give the sleepy beyond the use of CPAP. Not every sleep-deprived person has sleep apnea after all. Why is this important? Because they are in the sleep business, polysomnographers are sometimes asked questions about insomnia, which impacts a ...

 Another recent study, this time from Canada, links obstructive sleep apnea with diabetes, and the emerging data offer a clue as to those most prone to the blood-sugar disease. Diabetes risk may be two to three times higher among people who have daytime sleepiness along with sleep apnea, note key researchers in the study. They believe ...

Elderly women may be getting more sleep than they think, according to the results of a recent survey published in the journal SLEEP. Women who reported shorter and poorer quality of sleep actually had longer and less fragmented sleep than did elderly men, researchers noted. Dutch clinicians studied 956 male and female study participants ages 59 ...

Even if you are a sleep professional and watched the two-hour season premiere of The Biggest Loser earlier this week, you still may have missed some vital components taking place behind the scenes of the show. All contestants on that show now get tested for obstructive sleep apnea; and it is making a world of difference for the contestants, ...

The percentage of overweight children in the U.S. is growing at an alarming rate, according to KidsHealth, and one out of three kids today is classified as overweight or obese. The number is a staggering 2.7 million youngsters, many of whom will become overweight adults. But that tells only part of the story. Black and Mexican-American and ...

Look around you, caregivers. One of three of you on a typical day will take a nap, according to Pew Researcher Center studies released last month. Will it be you or one of your co-workers? Regardless, the trend certainly destroys the image of the vibrant, ready-for-anything health care worker. Those most prone to napping are people who had ...

Well, this may be one way to cut down on the wait time for a sleep study. Two computer hackers created their own sleep lab, which included EEG, heart rate monitor, EOM, and a web camera. The duo described the feat at DEFCON, one of the oldest continuous running hacker conventions. In their presentation, they gave a few caveats: We are not ...

The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration program proved to be a great success for the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. Medicare already has recouped nearly $1 billion from providers in the five states where the program was launched in 2005. And with tough times hitting everyone -including CMS - the government health care ...

A recent study has indicated a 40-minute protocol for the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT40) is better than a 20-minute one (MWT20) at detecting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). This hardly seems surprising considering it's usually a whole lot easier to stay up for 20 minutes than it is for 40 minutes, but the study does raise some ...