Chestnet.org - In women, habitual snoring may be an independent cause of excessive daytime sleepiness and daytime fatigue, regardless of sleep apnea occurrences, according to a study in the November 2008 issue of the journal CHEST.
Researchers from Sweden performed polysomnography on 400 randomly selected women, aged 20 to 70 years. The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was [...]

Many people equate the holidays with food – big meals equals big times. Americans, especially, attach a lot of social and personal value to what, and how, we eat, often through family rituals or attitudes. For many, family gatherings are positive events, but for the 9 million men, women or young people who have an [...]

JAMA / Archives - Sleeping less than seven and a half hours per day may be associated with future risk of heart disease, according to research presented in the November 10, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, a combination of little sleep and overnight elevated blood pressure appears to be associated with [...]

As a risk factor for high blood pressure, low levels of potassium in the diet may be as important as high levels of sodium - especially among African Americans, according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“There has been a lot of publicity [...]

Ulaval.ca - Children born to mothers with pregnancy-related diabetes (gestational diabetes) run twice the risk of language development problems, according to a research team directed by Professor Ginette Dionne of Université Laval’s School of Psychology. Details of this discovery are published in the most recent issue of the scientific journal Pediatrics.
Researchers compared the vocabulary and [...]

One form of vitamin D could be one of our body’s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation, suggests radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that calcitriol, the active form of vitamin [...]