Health News
If you have trouble sleeping, there's good news - you are getting an extra hour this weekend.
Don't forget to adjust your clocks an hour back at 2 a.m. Sunday due to the end of Daylight Savings. But you may also want to pause this weekend to ask if you are one of the 60 million Americans who has a sleep disorder.
A lack of quality sleep is often responsible for car crashes and mistakes and accidents in the workplace, not to mention that it can make you feel miserable.
Some sleep disorders, like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), exact a heavy toll on one?s health. OSA has been linked to high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. OSA, in which the upper airway repeatedly becomes blocked during sleep, is a condition that affects 24 percent of men and 8 percent of women. Symptoms include loud, irregular snoring; restless sleep with frequent (and possibly unnoticed) awakening; and waking up with a headache, dry mouth and/or sore throat.
Other common sleep disorder symptoms include daytime sleepiness; frequent nighttime urination; irritability or moodiness; memory loss; and poor concentration.
If you haven?t been getting a good night?s sleep lately, you owe it to yourself ? and to your long-term health ? to talk with your doctor about having a sleep study and seeing a sleep specialist.
Sleep studies are covered by most insurance plans. If you have a referral from your physician for a sleep study and consultation, appointments for a sleep study are available seven days a week at the sleep centers at Northwest and Sinai. To schedule a sleep study, call 410-601-9355.
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Health News
Daylight Savings Ends Sunday
If you have trouble sleeping, there's good news - you are getting an extra hour this weekend.
Don't forget to adjust your clocks an hour back at 2 a.m. Sunday due to the end of Daylight Savings. But you may also want to pause this weekend to ask if you are one of the 60 million Americans who has a sleep disorder.
A lack of quality sleep is often responsible for car crashes and mistakes and accidents in the workplace, not to mention that it can make you feel miserable.
Some sleep disorders, like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), exact a heavy toll on one?s health. OSA has been linked to high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. OSA, in which the upper airway repeatedly becomes blocked during sleep, is a condition that affects 24 percent of men and 8 percent of women. Symptoms include loud, irregular snoring; restless sleep with frequent (and possibly unnoticed) awakening; and waking up with a headache, dry mouth and/or sore throat.
Other common sleep disorder symptoms include daytime sleepiness; frequent nighttime urination; irritability or moodiness; memory loss; and poor concentration.
If you haven?t been getting a good night?s sleep lately, you owe it to yourself ? and to your long-term health ? to talk with your doctor about having a sleep study and seeing a sleep specialist.
Sleep studies are covered by most insurance plans. If you have a referral from your physician for a sleep study and consultation, appointments for a sleep study are available seven days a week at the sleep centers at Northwest and Sinai. To schedule a sleep study, call 410-601-9355.
- Obesity And Depression May Contribute To Daytime Sleepiness
Obesity and depression, not just lack of sleep, contribute to daytime drowsiness, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Daytime drowsiness or sleepiness affects up to 30 percent of the U.S. population. It can reduce work productivity...
- Ket Will Look Monday Night At Why Lack Of Sleep Is Bad For Your Health, And Offer Advice On Improving Sleep Quality
We live in a country where a third of adults report that they get less than six hours of sleep a night, which doesn't seem like a big deal until you consider the health risks that are associated with insufficient sleep. The next edition of KET's...
- Get More Sleep This Weekend!
By Dr. Madelyn FernstromFor those of you who skimp on sleep because of ?too much to do,? this weekend is meant for you. It?s the end of daylight savings time, and we turn our clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. It?s time to ?fall back? and...
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March 7 - 13 marks National Sleep Awareness Week, an educational campaign to remind people about the importance of sleep. It?s believed that the vast majority of sleep disorder cases go undiagnosed, and therefore many people suffer unnecessarily. However,...
- Sleep Quantity And Quality Are Key To Good Health
In observance of National Sleep Awareness Week (March 1-8), representatives from the Northwest Hospital Sleep Disorders Center will be in the Old Court Cafe March 2 - 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sleep quantity and quality are key factors to our health...