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...operate heavy machinery anytime soon. We're not alone. A new poll by the National Sleep Foundation reports that 76% of parents with children younger than 18 are likely to have one or more sleep problems--including difficulty falling asleep, snoring, waking up unrefreshed and sleep apnea--a few nights a week or more. As a result, those folks get half an hour less of sleep a night than their childless counterparts...
...even after eight hours of sleep--may have problems more serious than just getting a good night's rest. A study finds that snoring sleepyheads are twice as likely to suffer a stroke as ordinary snoozers. How come? The odd sleep patterns may be a sign of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing briefly stops throughout the night--possibly disrupting blood flow to the brain...
SNOOZE ALARM You may hate having a bedmate who snores, especially if the snoring is a result of sleep apnea--a condition in which breathing stops repeatedly for brief moments throughout the night. But think what the problem is doing to your partner. Researchers report that folks with severe sleep apnea--more than 30 breathing lapses an hour--are twice as likely to have high blood pressure as silent snoozers. The constant gasping for air prevents restful sleep, which probably affects blood pressure...
SNOOZE ALARM Talk about a drunken stupor. Doctors say not getting enough sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...
...effort to alert people to the risk of ignoring unexplained fatigue, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine is launching an educational campaign this week that will highlight three of the more common medical causes: thyroid disorders, depression and sleep apnea (a condition often characterized by snoring). "Baby boomers especially want to blame everything on their environment--their jobs, their kids, the stress of living in the '90s," says Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, who has just been elected president of the organization. But, she adds, you have to be alert to other possibilities as well, particularly after...