Increased minority representation should translate into better understanding of how heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders should help reduce health disparities.
New data shows that over 60% of African American patients evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea have a low respiratory arousal threshold, compared to 30% to 50% in other populations.
African-Americans with moderate or severe sleep apnea are twice as likely to have hard-to-control...
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How many hours people sleep at night may affect their risk of stroke differently based on race,...
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Poor sleep habits may be related to low levels of physical activity, high blood pressure, and...
Read MoreIndian-Americans have the highest percentage of sleeping with their babies among ethnic groups in New Jersey but the lowest rate of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), a Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences study shows....
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A new study by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital determined the prevalence of...
Read MorePreliminary data from a recent study show high levels of emotional distress could be causing immigrants to have more sleep disorder symptoms than non-immigrants. Migration can be a stressful experience and may lead to poor...
Read MoreIt’s likely that, over the course of their lifetimes, white students have slept hundreds of hours more than black students, reports The Washington Post. According to a forthcoming paper by Tiffany Yip, a psychology professor at...
Read MoreA US study suggests that black and Hispanic drivers are at twice the risk of falling asleep at the wheel compared to whites, and differences in sleep quality explain at least some of the disparity between blacks and whites,...
Read MoreBad sleep may fuel health disparities in America, reports Vox. Research shows black Americans on average simply don’t sleep as well white Americans do. They don’t sleep as long, they don’t sleep through the night as often, and...
Read MoreUCLA researchers have found that teenagers who face ethnic discrimination sleep less than those who do not, according to the Daily Bruin. In a study published last month, researchers at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and...
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Once again researchers have called into question the practice of sleeping in late on weekends to...
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Pediatric severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the Washington, DC metropolitan area is most...
Read MoreWhile the rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) in the United States has declined since 1995, a new study finds that significant disparities continue to exist between racial and ethnic groups. The study is published in...
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Not every sleep apnea patient has the same access to jaw surgery, according to research published...
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People who perceive more discrimination in daily life have higher rates of sleep problems, based...
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