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Conclusions:Single DADT and PVT administrations are reliable measures of sleepiness. A single MSLT administration can reasonably discriminate individuals with MSL < 8 minutes. These results support the use of a single administration of some objective tests of sleepiness when performed under controlled conditions in routine clinical care.Citation:Sunwoo BY; Jackson N; Maislin G; Gurubhagavatula I; George CF; Pack AI. Reliability of a single objective measure in assessing sleepiness. SLEEP 2012;35(1):149-158. (Source: Sleep)

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Conclusions:Children with reduced amounts of sleep (≤ 7.5 h/night) had an increased risk for higher body weight in early adolescence. Similarly, children who slept ≤ 7.5 h/night had higher risk of being anxious or depressed or having learning problems in early adolescence.Citation:Silva GE; Goodwin JL; Parthasarathy S; Sherrill DL; Vana KD; Drescher AA; Quan SF. Longitudinal association between short sleep, body weight, and emotional and learning problems in Hispanic and Caucasian children. SLEEP 2011;34(9):1197-1205. (Source: Sleep)

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ConclusionsThe majority of acute stroke patients had sleep apnea. Auto-CPAP was well tolerated, appears to improve neurological recovery from stroke, and may represent a new therapeutic approach for selected patients with acute cerebral infarction.Citation:Bravata DM; Concato J; Fried T; Ranjbar N; Sadarangani T; McClain V; Struve F; Zygmunt L; Knight HJ; Lo A; Richerson GB; Gorman M; Williams LS; Brass LM; Agostini J; Mohsenin V; Roux F; Yaggi HK. Continuous positive airway pressure: evaluation of a novel therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke. SLEEP 2011;34(9):1271-1277. (Source: Sleep)

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Conclusions: We found that A-Flex shows equivalency, but non-superiority (except for average leak values), in efficacy, adherence, and functional outcomes compared to CPAP after either 3 or 6 months. Clinical Trial Registry: Positive Pressure Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, http://www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT00636181. Citation: Kushida CA; Berry RB; Blau A; Crabtree T; Fietze I; Kryger MH; Kuna ST; Pegram GV; Penzel T. Positive airway pressure initiation: a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of therapy mode and titration process on efficacy, adherence, and outcomes. SLEEP 2011;34(8):1083-1092. (Source: Sleep)

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Conclusions:Insomnia-related symptoms were common in both genders. The symptoms and their clusters showed moderate heritability estimates. A significant association was found between poor sleep and risk of mortality, especially in those with somatic disease.Citation:Hublin C; Partinen M; Koskenvuo M; Kaprio J. Heritability and mortality risk of insomnia-related symptoms: a genetic epidemiologic study in a population-based twin cohort. SLEEP 2011;34(7):957-964. (Source: Sleep)

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Conclusions:The use of sedative medications has substantially risen among the general Canadian population, and among particular population subgroups. The greater odds of sedative medication use found among morbidly obese men may reflect the presence of underlying obstructive sleep apnea, which may in turn serve to explain in part the known relationship between sedative medications and mortality. The increase in sedative medications coupled with their known adverse health associations raises potential public health concerns.Citation:Vozoris NT; Leung RS. Sedative medication use: prevalence, risk factors, and associations with body mass index using population-level data. SLEEP 2011;34(7):869-874. (Source: Sleep)

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Sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, suggests a research abstract that was presented Monday, June 13, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). Results show that women with severe sleep apnea had the highest incidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes. This increased prevalence was principally driven by a higher incidence of gestational diabetes and early preterm birth… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that the risk of death is more than two times higher in older adults who have sleep apnea and report struggling with excessive daytime sleepiness. Results of adjusted proportional hazards modeling show that older adults with moderate to severe sleep apnea who reported struggling with excessive daytime sleepiness at baseline were more than twice as likely to die (hazard ratio = 2.28) as subjects who had neither problem. The risk of death was insignificant in older adults with only excessive daytime sleepiness (HR = 1… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Conclusions:It appears that the presence of EDS is more strongly associated with obesity, asthma, parent reported anxiety/depression, and trouble falling asleep than with sleep disordered breathing (SDB) or objective sleep disruption per se. Our findings suggest that children with EDS should be thoroughly assessed for anxiety/depression, nocturnal sleep difficulties, asthma, obesity, and other metabolic factors, whereas objective sleep findings may not be as clinically useful.Citation:Calhoun SL; Vgontzas AN; Fernandez-Mendoza J; Mayes SD; Tsaoussoglou M; Basta M; Bixler EO. Prevalence and risk factors of excessive daytime sleepiness in a community sample of young children: the role of obesity, asthma, anxiety/depression, and sleep. SLEEP 2011;34(4):503-507. (Source: Sleep)

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