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For many over 65, a night of undisturbed sleep is not an option. The causes are varied, including menopause and sleep apnea. See what might keep you up.
Hence, Foster et al. showed in their randomized study that weight loss has a significant improvement of symptoms in obese obstructive sleep apnea patients with type 2 diabetes. [40] Sleep apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder which causes an individual to have short pauses in breathing or very shallow breaths while ...
The study found that several sleep characteristics, including sleep quality, early morning awakening, and difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, were linked to accelerated brain aging ...
As of 2016, the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male defines late-onset hypogonadism as a series of symptoms in older adults related to testosterone deficiency that combines features of both primary and secondary hypogonadism; the European Male Aging Study (a prospective study of ~3000 men) [10] defined the condition by the presence of at least three sexual symptoms (e.g ...
It's suggested that idiopathic insomnia is a neurochemical problem in a part of the brain that controls the sleep-wake cycle, resulting in either under-active sleep signals or over-active wake signals. Sleep state misperception is diagnosed when people get enough sleep but inaccurately perceive that their sleep is insufficient. [128]
Harvard researchers analyzed 30 years of data on over 106,000 participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. The study included 70,467 women and 36,464 men.
Sleep disorders including sleep apnea have become an important health issue in the United States. Twenty-two million Americans have been estimated to have sleep apnea, with 80% of moderate and severe OSA cases undiagnosed. [117] OSA can occur at any age, but it happens more frequently in men who are over 40 and overweight. [117]
A new study reports that people in their 40s who have difficulty sleeping have a brain age 1.6 to 2.6 years older by the time they're in their 50s compared to people who consistently get quality ...