Recently, we published the results of a cross-sectional polysomnographic (PSG) study in consecutive multiple sclerosis (MS) patients [1]. Of 66 patients who underwent PSG, 49 suffered from a sleep disorder (SD); seven of these suffered from more than one SD. In these cases we classified...
However, the relationship between sleep and depressive disorder is still considered complex. Depression can promote the genesis of sleep–wake rhythm disturbances that, in turn, may contribute to the exacerbation of the disorder [11]. For some people, depressive symptoms occur before the onset of ...
Sleep Disorder Statistics How many Americans have a sleep disorder? According to the American Sleep Association,between 50 and 70 million US adults suffer from a sleep disorder. It’s estimated that27% of adults in America have trouble sleeping most nights, according todata from Consumer Reports,...
Also excluded were those who reported a current inflammatory disorder, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, illness, or infection (eg, autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C, cancer, or acute infection in the past 2 weeks). Procedures Participants who responded to the ...
In models examining all-cause mortality, dementia was also added as a confounder. Statistical analyses We computed descriptive statistics for demographic factors and for sleep characteristics (Table 1). Demographic and health condition data were obtained from the annual NHATS questionnaires in 2013 and...
ASD is not new, but the statistics show huge growth in the number of people being diagnosed. In 2018, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthestimatedthat1 in 59 8-year-old kids in the U.S. has autism spectrum disorder— up from 1 in 150 children back in 200...
Effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for insomnia in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2019;14(8):e0221428-e0221428. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221428PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 25. Busch V, Altenburg TM, Harmsen ...
cellular excitability, motor function and pain (Lee,2015). A brief 5-hour period of sleep deprivation interferes with cAMP signalling in the hippocampus and impairs its function (Vecsey et al.,2009). Thus, optimal academic performance is hindered, if there is a sleep disorder (Hershner and Che...
facilitated testing for inter- and intra-individual variability (i.e., sleep statistics across the entire cohort or across each participant’s sleep windows). We then assessed our method in a larger, more diverse, open-source dataset (n=1,743), as well as a smaller cohort (n=31) that...
,65 which includes policy indexes constructed from COVID-19-related policies (eMethods in Supplement 1)37; (2) county-level COVID-19 incidence derived from John Hopkins University COVID-19 data24; and (3) county-level monthly unemployment rates from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)....