Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2012"

TL;DR: Sleep disturbances are very common after TBI and have the potential to seriously undermine patient rehabilitation, recovery, and outcomes; making it important to routinely screen for such problems in order to assess both treatment needs and their potential impact on recovery and outcome.

TL;DR: An overview of existing literature on the relation between poor sleep and aggression, irritability, and hostility is given and individual variation within these neurobiological systems may be responsible for amplified aggressive responses induced by sleep loss in certain individuals.

TL;DR: It was found that daytime napping at baseline was associated with a lower risk of cognitive decline at two and 10 years, and that obtaining ≤6.5h of night-time sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness at baseline were associated with an increased risk at 10 years.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that the PSQI and ESS are internally consistent, valid measures of self-reported sleep problems in older women.

TL;DR: Focusing on more vulnerable groups and addressing the modifiable risk factors may help reduce the incident of chronic insomnia, a common and chronic sleep disorder associated with significant medical and psychiatric morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: Sex and puberty-related differences in actigraphic scoring were found, with more WASO and less sleep scored in boys compared to girls and more WasO scored amongst pubertally-mature boys than boys of less advanced pubertal development.

TL;DR: Delayed sleep phase appears to be common amongst Norwegian adolescents and is associated with negative outcomes such as lower average school grades, smoking, alcohol usage, and elevated anxiety and depression scores.

TL;DR: Both sleep duration and insufficiency are related to cardiometabolic health outcomes, and that when evaluated together, both variables demonstrate unique effects.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that it is important for sleep researchers to control smoking status in their analyses, as sleep disturbances are a known risk factor for early relapse after initial tobacco abstinence.

TL;DR: The results showed that bedtime stress and worries were the main predictors of sleep quality, but that, also, late awakening, short priorSleep, high quality of prior sleep, and good health the prior day predicted higher sleep quality.

TL;DR: Disturbed sleep is cross-sectionally associated with worse COPD and is longitudinally predictive of COPD exacerbations, emergency health care utilization, and mortality.

TL;DR: Among non-frail older men, poor subjective sleep quality, greater nighttime wakefulness, and greater nocturnal hypoxemia were independently associated with higher odds of frailty or death at follow-up, while excessive daytime sleepiness, great nighttime wakeness, severe sleep apnea and greaterNocturnal Hypoxemiawere independently associatedwith an increased risk of mortality.

TL;DR: An individualized and multifaceted therapeutic approach which addresses in a step-by-step fashion all abnormalities that contribute to upper airway obstruction during sleep is necessary.

TL;DR: The ISI is a reliable and valid instrument to assess the subjective severity of insomnia in Spanish-speaking populations and its three-factor structure makes it a psychometrically robust and clinically useful measure.

TL;DR: In almost one third of awake mechanically ventilated ICU patients, sleep cannot be classified with standard criteria, and two new states, atypical sleep and pathologic wakefulness, need to be added.

TL;DR: SDB of any severity was associated with poorer behavior but not cognitive performance and the lack of significant cognitive impairment in this age group may have identified a "window of opportunity" where early treatment may prevent deficits arising later in childhood.

TL;DR: The gender differences of brain regional homogeneity (ReHo) in healthy subjects during the resting-state, after normal sleep, and after sleep deprivation is explored using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and the ReHo method.

TL;DR: Owing to the methodological limitations of the studies and equivocal results, the current evidence does not allow a clear conclusion on the benefits of acupressure, reflexology, and auricular ac upressure for insomnia.

TL;DR: Obesity and IH increased tumor growth, but did not appear to exert any synergistic effects, and Circulating VEGF appeared as a crucial mediator of tumor growth in both situations.

TL;DR: Narcolepsy causes socioeconomic consequences, not only for patients, but also for their partners, which is present years prior to disease diagnosis, confirming a diagnostic delay.

TL;DR: An evening circadian chronotype regardless of DSPD status is associated with a risk for anxiety, depressive or substance-use disorders, and this results highlight the important link between circadian rhythms and mental disorders.

TL;DR: This survey suggests that chronic insomnia is associated with significant impairment of HRQoL and decreased utilities across the different geographical regions studied.

TL;DR: The efficacy of pramipexole dropped with time, with increase in dose and addition of other agents, although the majority of patients remained on the drug, and the need for further research into alternative non-dopaminergic treatments for RLS is highlighted.

TL;DR: The prevalence of SE-OSA is high in France and OSA remains underdiagnosed, even in people with obesity or hypertension, and further efforts are needed to improve the diagnosis of OSA.

TL;DR: This paper reviews 15 adolescent studies that have directly investigated the effects of shortened sleep duration on overweight and obesity and identified methodological limitations within the literature and presented alternative methodologies for future research.

TL;DR: The data suggest that even modest sleep deprivation and disturbances in the sleep-wake cycle might increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction across the population.

TL;DR: This paper evaluates the value of the application of the current criteria for the scoring of leg movement activity during sleep, recorded in clinical and research settings, for the study of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and other conditions and concludes that these new methods have proven to be able to provide new insights into the phenomenon of leg Movements during sleep.

TL;DR: The data suggest that DXP 6 mg is effective for treating sleep maintenance insomnia and is well-tolerated in elderly adults with chronic primary insomnia.

TL;DR: The results of the present study indicate that the effect of VO on the degree of pharyngeal collapse as assessed during sleep endoscopy tends to be adverse, causing an increase in collapsibility in the majority of patients.

TL;DR: Chronic insomnia is a common problem with considerable persistence and incidence rates among middle-aged Chinese adults and Insomnia syndrome has a higher persistence rate with more mental and medical comorbidities when compared with insomnia symptoms without daytime consequences.