Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
... to fall asleep during the day and the tendency to snore influence the likelihood of having a stroke, says Qureshi. Individuals who snore severely or have trouble staying awake during the day should see a doctor to find out why. These ma...Link found between kids sleep, behavior problems
...hyperactivity issues ANN ARBOR, MI Children who snore often are nearly twice as likely as other children... Sixteen percent of the children were reported to snore frequently, and 13 percent scored high on the hyperactivity index. But 22 percent of habitual snorer...Study links preschool snoring, asthma, and nighttime cough
...st 12, 2003) Preschool-age children who regularly snore have a higher prevalence of asthma and nighttime cough than children who do not snore, says a study published in the August issue of CHEST , the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). The study found that preschoo...Does the sleeping brain 'wake up' if only just a little with every snore?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Patients who snore or have other symptoms of sleep apnea often underg...n these episodes. "Our idea was that maybe every snore or every difficult breath is actually arousing the brain to some small extent," Chervin explains. "T...Mayo Clinic finds restless legs syndrome in children linked to family history, iron deficiency
..." he says. "It's like the fact that somebody might snore one or two days a month, but if it happens every night, it may be something that needs medical attention." The study examined the records of 538 children who had been seen in the pediatric sleep disorders program at Mayo Clinic between Jan. 2000 and......n a study of 21 patients with OSAHS, 12 people who snore and 15 control subjects, researchers from Madrid, Spain, found that patients with OSAHS more frequently had irregular heartbeats (cardiac arrhythmias) and ST-segment dynamic changes than other subjects. The differences between results for OSAHS pati...