New hope to treat misdiagnosed sleep disorder

Sleep disorder multiplies depression risk

Professor Ron Grunstein from the Woolcock Institute in Sydney says it is difficult to diagnose delayed sleep phase disorder. “Most people who have it don’t know they have a disorder,” he said. “They just think they have trouble getting off to sleep and trouble waking up.” Professor Grunstein says not going to bed before 2am or 3am is common in patients with the condition. “They will sleep quite soundly but they are unable to get out of bed the next day,” he said. Sydney medical student Michelle Emerson, 25, says she realised she had delayed sleep phase disorder while listening to a university lecture on sleep disorders. “If ever I have to wake up at what most people would consider a normal time, I’m ridiculously tired and if I could keep pressing the snooze button, I would,” she said. Her ideal bed time is around midnight or even later, but she says that is not conducive to her lifestyle and study.
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Sleep-Texting Becoming An Alarming Trend, Experts Say

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that men with diagnosed sleep apnea are more than twice as likely as other men to exhibit signs of clinical depression, such as feeling hopeless and uninterested in everyday activities. The picture was even worse among women: A sleep apnea diagnosis increased the risk of depression symptoms fivefold. What’s more, the study suggests that sleep apnea is underdiagnosed. More than 80% of the people who reported classic symptoms such as snorting or gasping for breath on most nights of the week had never received an official diagnosis.
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Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor of nursing at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, has investigated the phenomenon of sleep-texting among college students. One young woman Dowdell studied had a habit of sending gushing, romantic texts to platonic friends. “A classmate texted her something about anatomy class, and her reply back was, ‘I just love it. I love you! You’re the light of my life,'” Dowdell told US News & World Report . “Then, there was an old boyfriend who texted her, and she sent responses like, ‘I adore you, please come over,’ while she was asleep. She was mortified when she realized.” Aside from compromising situations, sleep-texting may cause health issues as well.
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Get Some Sleep: ADHD, sleep disorders often entwined

Good news is, his snoring got better after the tonsilectomy! January 4, 2011 at 13:18 | Report abuse | Reply Frank I was told I had a pretty nasty case of UARS, which is similar to Sleep Apnea. I also had symptoms similar to ADHD as a child and would have to posture my body so that I could breathe right, and had bedwetting to add to that. The sleep lab I went to a few years ago suggested I get my visibly large tonsils removed along with my adenoids, but said that I would have issues finding a surgeon willing to do this because getting tonsils removed was currently not an ‘in’ fad. He said to wait a few years until it became a trend again, and then I would not have any issues finding a willing surgeon.
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‘Sleeping beauty’ suffers from rare brain disorder that makes her sleep for up to TWO MONTHS at a time

It can be depressing, because I have no control over the condition and theres no effective treatment or cure. I’m a happy person in everyday life and I dont want KLS to overtake me. Im not sure about the future, but I want to stay positive. Ive been told as randomly as the condition arrived, it will disappear like that too. I have to be patient. KLS typically lasts between ten to fifteen years, said Dr. Guy Leschziner, consultant neurologist and sleep physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. “The typical picture is that of a young teenager, who becomes confused, has pathological eating to excess and sometimes aggression or other personality changes during these episodes,” he said.
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Get Some Sleep: ADHD, sleep disorders often entwined

I look pretty tired and sad too AND my health is all but gone as well. Getting up several times a night with a baby for almost TWO YEARS will do that to a mom….a good mom anyway. February 1, 2011 at 17:42 | Report abuse | cassy Wow dave ! HARSH,.
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Poor Sleep in Pregnancy Can Lead to Complications at Birth

Pregnancy and Asthma

Cytokines are communication molecules that are involved in regulating the body’s immune responses. The over-production of certain cytokines is a sign of elevated levels of inflammation in the body, and a signal that the body’s immune system is not working properly. Researchers found: Poor sleep and depression were both associated with increased risk for birth complications, when found separately and together. Among the women evaluated, those with both depression and poor sleep were at the greatest risk for complications including pre-term birth and low birth weight.
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If you are using an asthma inhaler , studies of its safety during pregnancy have been reassuring. In addition, the risk for asthma attacks decreases and lung function is improved with treatment. If you take oral medications to control your asthma, you may want to talk to your doctor about a change to your regimen since there is not as much evidence on safety. If you already receive allergy shots, you can safely continue to do so. However, they should not be initiated during pregnancy.
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Right Diet May Cut Kidney Risk in Diabetes

Redskins Team With HDL on Advanced Heart Disease, Diabetes Tests

One exception, they note, is a recent study of the Mediterranean diet in which increased levels of olive oil or nuts lowered the risk of cardiovascular disease. Nonetheless, they argued, patients both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease “may be frustrated” by the dietary restrictions that encompass them and long for clearer answers. Oberbauer and colleagues noted that “little is known” about the ways diet plays a role in the incidence or progression of chronic kidney disease among people with type 2 diabetes. To help clarify the issue, they turned to the large ONTARGET randomized trial, which included 25,620 participants who were 55 or older with vascular disease or type 2 diabetes with end-organ damage , and therefore also at high risk for kidney disease. In an observational analysis, they looked at the 6,213 participants with type 2 diabetes, normal albuminuria or microalbuminuria at the start of the study, and urinary albumin-creatinine ratio and glomerular filtration (GFR) rate at both study entry and end. The study outcome was one of the three possible states after 5.5 years of follow-up: alive with no incidence or progression of chronic kidney disease, alive but with incidence or progression of kidney disease, or dead.
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Avanir Pharmaceuticals Announces Diabetes Co-Promotion Agreement with Merck

If we can educate and motivate people for a healthier lifestyle today, were going to ensure a better tomorrow for them. HDL this summer performed a comprehensive blood panel on the teams players and staff that looked at biomarkers beyond cholesterol, such as lipid particle size, inflammation, stress, diabetes risk and genetics. What weve been doing in the past, we looked at cholesterol and tried to find risks for heart disease, and we looked at blood sugar for risks for diabetes, HDL Chief Medical Officer Tara Dall said by phone. Those markers commonly dont pick up on those who are at greatest risk. There are so much better technologies to understand what somebodys future is for heart disease and diabetes. Not Immune Dall said its critical for professional athletes to realize that, even though theyre in top physical shape, theyre not immune to the risks of diabetes and heart disease due to genes and lifestyle. If we can understand that and intervene with a healthy lifestyle and addressing genetic risks, it will make a big difference, Dall added. Redskins team doctor Tony Casolaro said the screenings by HDL simply add another level of investigation to the NFLs comprehensive medical plan. He said the results are kept private between the players and the teams medical staff.
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(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130207/LA55901LOGO ) “As a company dedicated to the advancement of diabetes care, we are excited to partner with Avanir to help improve diabetes management and offer our type 2 diabetes therapies to this patient population,” said Peter Alberti, U.S. marketing leader, Diabetes, Merck. “We believe that combining Merck’s leadership in diabetes with Avanir’s unique capabilities will help this growing population get the diabetes care they need.” Avanir’s institutional sales force will promote the sitagliptin family of products to health care practitioners in the long-term care institutional setting beginning in October 2013. Under the terms of this agreement, Avanir will be compensated via a fixed fee plus an incentive-based payment.
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Stepping out to stop diabetes

They are a reminder of why we walk. One particular Red Strider walking this year is Heather Berg, the Associations 2013 National Youth Advocate diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10. Her earliest experience with the disease, however, came a year and a half earlier when her younger brother was diagnosed with diabetes at only 14 months old. While she and her brother were very young when they were first diagnosed, the fight to Stop Diabetes was more than a movement to Heather and her family it was a mission. Ive been part of the Association’s teen advocacy programs for six years now and have attended several local Step Out walks as a volunteer, doing everything from handing out refreshments and granola bars to cheering on all of our diabetes champions at the finish line, says Berg. By participating in Step Out, Berg has raised more than $30,000 to help Stop Diabetes.
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Fitness: Aqua workouts

Personal Trainers Around the Country Learn How to Get More Fitness Boot Camp Clients with the Help of Fitness Marketing Expert, Bedros Keuilian

Arm exercises: Start with simple arm lifts (with or without weights). After lifting, you can rotate your arms in clockwise and anticlockwise direction. Lower body exercises: This is performed with one leg outstretched and the supporting leg slightly bent, while you hold on to the side of the pool. Non-logged-in comments will go through a verification process for security reasons. Log in to post this comment Your comment Characters Remaining: 3000 Refrain from posting comments that are obscene, libellous, slanderous or inflammatory, and do not indulge in personal attacks, name calling or inciting hatred against any community. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines by marking them offensive.
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Celebrate the end of Summer @ QT Fitness

In todays current business climate, companies are forced to do more with fewer resources than ever before. Therefore it is imperative that those in the workforce feel valued, and encouraged to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Many companies have realized the importance of investing in the health of their employees, and often do so through corporate wellness programs . For local businesses that are looking to focus on employee wellness, Anytime Fitness provides flexible health programs that are easily customizable for organizations of any size. In most cases this can be done at no cost to the business. Located at 6105 W. Forest Home Ave., this Greenfield, WI gym wishes to help Milwaukee area businesses achieve employee wellness goals in the second half of 2013.
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Anytime Fitness of Greenfield helps promote health in the workplace

By launching a foolproof sales system, How to Close 9 Out of 10 Clients, Keuilian hopes to show personal trainers how to confidently sell more fitness training packages in order to grow their business. He explains, How to Close 9 Out of 10 Clients is a bona-fide proven sales system for fitness professionals of all levels. It’s not a marketing system that requires additional expenses, cost, time or effort. This system is developed to take your existing leads and prospects and convert them into loyal paying clients. It completely takes the guesswork out of selling. Keuilian says that the techniques shared in How to Close 9 Out of 10 Clients are ones that he has crafted and fine-tuned over the years and that he believes they could benefit personal trainers who lack the sales experience to turn lookers into buyers. Designed to give those running a personal training business insight as to how the perfect sales presentation should occur, How to Close 9 Out of 10 Clients teaches important skills like how to overcome common sales objections, sell larger fitness training packages, and set prices and packages for maximum results and profits. See, marketing is everything you do to get leads and prospects to call, email, and come into your facility, says Keuilian.
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