Severe Sleep Apnea Linked to Higher Blood Glucose Levels in African-Americans
African Americans with severe sleep apnea and other adverse sleep patterns are much more likely to have high blood glucose levels than those without these patterns.
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Women with type 2 diabetes may face more sleep issues and more severe sleep troubles during menopause than peers without diabetes, a small study suggests. Among 164 middle-aged women who completed a survey, those with diabetes...
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Addiction to Video Games Leads to Sleep Deprivation in Some Gamers
Some children and youth with high video game addiction tendencies may be at risk of sleep...
CVS Health Testing New HealthHUB Store Format
With the new format over 20% of the store is dedicated to health services, including new durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies and new product and service combinations for sleep apnea and diabetes care. CVS Health is...
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Daytime Nap Linked with 5 mm Hg Drop in Blood Pressure
New research being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific...
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Yo-yo Sleep Schedule Can Be Worse on Some Measures Than Maintaining Sleep Debt
Think sleeping in on the weekend can repair the damage from a week of sleepless nights? Not so,...
Read MoreFellow Spotlight: Raj Bhui, MD
For Duke Neurology’s “Spotlight” interview, Raj Bhui, MD, talks about being a family medicine physician in a sleep medicine fellowship. As a family medicine physician who wore multiple hats, one of my common roles was to...
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In Teens, Split Versus Continuous Sleep Impacts Cognition and Glucose Differently
Many adolescent students sleep less than the recommended duration of 8-10 hours a night. But...
Read MoreEvidence Suggests that Sleep Quality Improves with Virta Health’s Nutritional Ketosis Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes Reversal
Virta Health, which promotes a nutritional ketosis care model and intervention for Type 2 diabetes reversal has published peer-reviewed research in Sleep Medicine. This study found significant improvement in self-reported sleep...
Read MoreHealth Matters: Sleep and Diabetes
Millions of Americans are living with diabetes—but doctors say lack of exercise and nutrition may not be the only causes driving this disease, reports NBC 2. “There is a correlation between sleep and diabetes. Disrupted sleep...
Read MoreNight Shifts Plus Unhealthy Lifestyle May be Recipe for Diabetes
Women who work rotating night shifts and also have unhealthy lifestyle habits may be much more likely to develop diabetes than peers with only one of these risk factors, according a large study. In the study of female nurses,...
Read MoreResearchers Link Sleep Health to Insulin Resistance in Obese Teens
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Colorado have identified a connection between overweight and obese teens’ sleep health and their insulin sensitivity.The study used an objective measurement of circadian...
Read MoreStudy Reveals Relationship of Sleep Duration, Diabetes Risk in Cancer Survivors
Long sleep duration may be protective against type II diabetes in cancer survivors, according to a study published in Cancer Management and Research. Sleep duration has cardiometabolic effects, and patients with cancer are at...
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Poor Sleep Efficiency Linked to Lower Cognitive Functioning in People with Diabetes
A study published in the journal Acta Diabetologica reports that people with diabetes and...
Read MoreWounds Heal More Slowly in Mice with Poor Sleep Plus Diabetes
Overweight mice with Type 2 diabetes and disrupted sleep needed more time to heal skin wounds than mice that also had disrupted sleep but didn’t have Type 2 diabetes in a study published by researchers from the University...
Read MoreMouse Study Finds that Losing a Single Night’s Sleep Could Increase Diabetes Risk
Losing a single night’s sleep may affect the liver’s ability to produce glucose and process insulin, increasing the risk of metabolic diseases such as hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) and type 2 diabetes. The findings...
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Investigating Possible Links Between Sleep Apnea Treatment and Diabetes Management
Robert Stansbury, MD, assistant professor in the West Virginia University (WVU) School of...
Read MoreT1D Sleep Pilot to Study Relationship Between Low Blood Sugar at Night and Daily Behavior
Evidation Health, a health and measurement company that helps life sciences and health care companies understand how everyday behaviors and health interact, has entered into a new technology partnership with Tidepool, an open...
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