AASMNET.org - African–American and Hispanic young adults with too much sleep or too little sleep had greater increases in belly fat over a five-year period compared with those who reported sleeping six to seven hours a night, according to a new study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal SLEEP.
In individuals under 40, [...]

AASMNET.org - Frequent napping is associated with an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in an older Chinese population, according to a study in the March 1, 2010 issue of the journal Sleep.
Results show that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 36 percent higher (adjusted odds ratio = 1.36) in [...]

Researchers have discovered that daytime naps are an integral part of learning for babies, helping the developing brain to learn more about the new world and to retain new information.
Rebecca Gomez, Richard Bootzin and Lynn Nadel in the psychology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson found that babies who are able to get [...]

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) adversely affects glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago.
The study “demonstrates for the first time that there is a clear, graded, inverse relationship between OSA severity and glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes,” wrote lead author, [...]

CFAH.org - Only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night, a large new study finds. The others are living with borderline-to-serious sleep deficits that could lead to daytime drowsiness, depression, headaches and poor performance at school.
The study, which appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, evaluated [...]

AASMnet.org - Long-term alcoholism affects sleep even after long periods of abstinence, and the pattern of this effect is similar in both men and women, according to a study in the journal SLEEP.
Results indicate that in long-term alcoholics who had not had a drink for up to 719 days, the percentage of slow wave sleep [...]