Sleep

Five hours or less of sleep each night is a recipe for multimorbidity in seniors, the authors of a long-term study contend.

Older men and women who are exposed to any amount of light while sleeping are more likely to have these chronic conditions than their peers who sleep in total darkness, investigators have found.

Poor sleep quality is a good predictor of whether a patient with COPD will have exacerbations, researchers say.

Helping older adults achieve 7 hours of nightly sleep may help them maintain optimal cognitive health, especially those with dementia and psychiatric disorders, researchers say.

The lethargy that many Alzheimer’s patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms...

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Nurses have lost a lot of sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their sleep problems are closely tied to mental health issues that can affect well-being, a new investigation finds.

Older adults frequently use medication to treat sleep difficulties, but only about half discuss it with their physicians, study results presented at Psych Congress 2021 this week found. In fact, the majority...

Abnormal nighttime blood pressure dips can double the odds of death for patients with diabetes, a long-term study has found. Clinicians should regularly look for and treat the problem, investigators say.

(HealthDay News) — Poor sleep is associated with increased risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality, with risk exacerbated among those with insufficient physical activity (PA), according to a...