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Sleep may act as a moderator between risk factors for depression and the onset of depression in women vulnerable to sleep changes during the postpartum period.
A distinct ECG-derived spectrographic phenotype is associated with prevalent hypertension, stroke, greater severity of sleep disordered breathing and sleep fragmentation in patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
This is the first large-scale study to describe the associations between measures of inflammation and sleep duration in both men and women.
Recipients of the 2009 American Academy of Sleep Medicine Awards
This study is the first to examine the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes in a predominately African-American and Hispanic population.
This study is the first to demonstrate that fatigue and tiredness can improve after adequate treatment with CPAP therapy.
Abstracts presented on Thursday, June 11, at SLEEP 2009
Abstracts presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009
Abstracts presented on Tuesday, June 9, at SLEEP 2009
Abstracts that will be presented at SLEEP 2009 on Monday, June 8