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Past studies have examined the link between sleep and stroke, but that research has focused mainly on people with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes interruptions in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. In one study involving patients with severe sleep apnea (five or more episodes of apnea per hour), researchers found it was "significantly related to a two-fold increased risk of a stroke," says Bernadette Boden-Albala, lead author of the current study and assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...While H-Link is supported by Facebook’s third-party application platform, the course data will come from the official files of the Harvard registrar...
...Link connects the public information stored on Facebook profiles and the private course and contact information that are available on Harvard’s servers...
Harvard created the applet in response to the growing popularity of the social networking site, as well as the evolving need for simpler ways to link students through technology...
...Link is not intended to replace regular course sites that are developed by the University, according to a press release on the Harvard Gazette’s Web site. To this end, it will not include functions like discussion groups or other forms of official course communication...