DNA testing proves that a person has over 800 species of bacteria in the human mouth, and many of them can wreak havoc on a person’s health. Majority of the people are unaware that the condition of their teeth can affect the health of their entire bodies.More and more research studies are confirming what many physicians and dentists have long suspected: Poor oral health can lead to systemic health problems and diseases. The list of conditions linked to periodontitis (gum disease) reads like a who’s-who of disease, including systemic inflammation, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, chronic kidney disease, lung disease, cancer, osteoporosis, ulcers, arthritis, sleep apnea and snoring, and even serious pregnancy complications. Read the rest of this entry
Finally with the introduction of an anti-snore pillow into the market for the benefit of many couples that have been enduring their partner’s snoring logs.The anti snore pillow is designed ergonomically so that you are able to sleep in a correct and comfortable position that will reduce the symptoms that causes snoring.
The moment you lay your head on the snoreless pillow, you will find that your body is so aligned that your head level stays above your feet level. Whether you sleep on your back or your side, this position of the head above toes level, causes the airway passage in your throat to open up and prevents you from snoring. Even if you are habituated to sleeping on your back, the unique design of the snoreless pillow helps you to sleep comfortably on your side.
The pillow also helps to alleviate another problem that is faced by most people. It has been confirmed by researchers that chronic acid reflux (GERD) causes coughing, snoring and chest pain, thereby a sleep disturbed night. As the pillow elevates your head to be above your feet, the esophagus automatically remains raised and thereby prevents the reflux of acid. It helps even more if the anti snore pillow is placed over the normal pillow, which helps your head to be at a still more raised level.
The snoreless pillow is certain to be a boon to those heavy snorers. Many Wives are certainly going to be thankful to the introduction of this anti snore pillow, for your husbands are not going to snore anymore. You can catch up with your beauty sleep and feel energized again.
A research study was recently performed to evaluate the relations between sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors and napping behavior, and to assess whether daytime napping leads to subsequent better or worse sleep.
The sample consisted of 224 (African American, Caucasian, and Asian) middle-aged men and women. Sleep measures included nine nights of actigraphy and sleep diaries, sleep questionnaires, and one night of polysomnography to measure sleep disordered breathing.
More frequent napping was associated with shorter nighttime sleep duration averaged across the nine nights of actigraphy (especially among African Americans), more daytime sleepiness, more pain and fatigue by diary, and increased body mass index and waist circumference. Shorter nighttime sleep duration was associated with taking a nap during the next day and taking a nap was associated with less efficient sleep the next night.
Napping in middle-aged men and women is associated with overall less nighttime sleep in African Americans and lower sleep efficiency as measured by actigraphy, and increased BMI and central adiposity. These findings point to the importance of measuring of napping in understanding associations of sleep with cardiovascular risk.
Engineering expertise is taking on an ever-more important role in designing for manufacturability in the world of metal stamped parts and springs. Particularly in today’s new medical devices and firearms, engineering expertise is invaluable in driving down manufacturing costs.
Expertise in prototyping parts to test and prove design concepts, suggesting ways to reduce secondary operations which reduces cost, and providing value engineering consulting expertise, are key engineering skills that ensure the success of projects. Each is built on a foundation of communications and two-way dialogue that opens up the lines of communication.
One example is a large medical device company, for whom CSS produces a stamped flat spring located underneath the water tank of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) system used to treat sleep apnea. Working with the company, CSS developed an initial prototype, and worked through several design iterations before settling on a good design that could meet the requirements. A short run of 2500 proved the design, and more than 750,000 of the machines have since been manufactured.
There are few things in life which money cannot buy. Money can buy you the most comfortable mattresses but not a good night’s sleep. For many, sleep apnea, insomnia or sleeplessness is a serious problem. It leads to a wide range of side effects like lowered focus and concentration, over-anxiety, deterioration of the immune system etc. Here are five simple and effective ways to help you to come out of your sleeping disorders like sleep apnea disorder and insomnia.
Get Into A Routine
The first and foremost is to have a bedtime routine which helps your body to establish a good sleeping pattern. Avoid random bedtime as it puzzles your body to distinguish from your need for a refreshing daytime and relaxing nighttime. Choose a convenient time which is easy for you to follow every day. This way you are helping your body to fall into a routine. Similarly, if you want to have a nap in the daytime, again apply the same principle – give your body a fixed time for napping. Read the rest of this entry
How you sleep at night has a big impact on your quality of life, and veterans may be at higher risk for a certain sleep disorder. Here are the important facts;
Sleep apnea is no small problem. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, can last from a few seconds to minutes, and may occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour.
Similarly, each abnormally low breathing event is called a hypopnea. Sleep apnea is diagnosed with an overnight sleep test called a polysomnogram, or “sleep study”. [Read The Complete Post...]
SleepApneaDisorder/[ Press Release ] Phoenix, AZ /December 17, 2010/ JC Goodwin from Sleep Effect Center for Apnea Management in Prescott, Arizona isn’t your typical Dentist. Although familiar with bridges, cavities and crowns, this Dentist is redefining the Dental Industry, one snoring patient at a time. With over 100 Million people diagnosed with OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea) it’s assumed more physicians would implement greater OSA treatments in their practices. Interestingly enough, Dentists like Dr. Goodwin are among the small group of Doctors stepping up, to take on the sleepy killer, OSA.
With the help of technology and continuing education, more Doctors are beginning to treat and diagnose Sleep Apnea patients in house. Companies like Sleep Group Solutions offer advanced acoustic diagnostic imaging, home sleep tests, in office training and seminars to raise awareness of OSA and get Doctor involvement. “PCP’s and Dentists tend to see the most patients, they can boost awareness of the disorder, and successfully treat it.” Says Rani Ben-David, President of Sleep Group Solutions. “We have many Doctors (clients) who have saved lives and cured diseases, all by treating OSA.” Read the rest of this entry
UAE Philips conducted an online Sleep Apnea Awareness campaign titled Do You Snore, to help build public consciousness about Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in the UAE. Email invitations were sent out to fill out a short and straight forward survey to more than 200,000 recipients based in the country, targeting a sample group of the age 25 and above.
A high number of respondents showed positive results and are very likely to be suffering fromObstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). The potential patients were advised to print their report and seek further medical advice and diagnostic tests for sleep apnea.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is one of the most common sleep disorders worldwide. It is a condition that causes a persons breathing to stop repeatedly during the night, causing disruption in their sleep as they struggle to breathe. As a result, they never get the deep, restorative sleep that is needed. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can not only negatively impact a persons overall quality of life and productivity, but it can also potentially lead to serious health issues like increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythm, strokes and other conditions. Read the rest of this entry
SleepApneaDisorder/ [ Press Release ]/ Los Angeles, CA/ December 15, 2010/ Announcing follow up care Friday as a great new way for those seeking sleep apnea treatment to interact with medical professionals in a no pressure, highly beneficial way. Sleep apnea treatment experts from Nationwide Medical, Inc will begin offering their time this Friday at 10:00 am for 1 hour and every other week thereafter to engage and interact exclusively through Facebook.
Follow Up Friday is a purely on-line social media engagement project featuring a Question and Answer session to benefit anyone with concerns about sleep apnea and treatment. A hugely anticipated experience, this is a rare opportunity for those at risk for sleep apnea to ask the most pressing questions about sleep apnea, associated symptoms, and proper follow up care and treatment.
Commencing on Friday, December 17th and resuming in January after the holidays, this will be an engaging experience where people can connect with qualified professionals to receive information on top level care and ask any questions as they pertain to sleep apnea and related treatment in a no-pressure social environment. Read the rest of this entry
Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData’s new report “North America Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices Market Outlook to 2016″.
This new report provides key market data on the North America Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices market United States and Canada. The report provides value (USD million) data for all the market categories Airway Anesthesia Disposables, Anesthesia Machines, Respiratory Devices, Respiratory Disposables, Respiratory Measurement Devices, Sleep Apnea Diagnostic Systems, Regional Anesthesia Disposables, and Pain Management Devices. The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories. The report is supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants.
This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by Our team of industry experts.
CSC’s Leading Edge Forum has released a report recently that identifies a new wave of disruptive technologies that will reshape the delivery of healthcare. These new technologies will help control costs while improving health by ushering in an era of wellness, self-monitoring, increased and earlier detection of disease, and more effective treatments.
The report, “The Future of Healthcare: It’s Health, Then Care,” identifies a wide range of technologies in development, from intelligent pills that deliver targeted doses of medication to specific locations in the body, to brain implants that prevent seizures, to contact lenses with microchips to detect glaucoma, to bioprinting that creates new skin.
“Healthcare needs significant disruptive change to address its problems and there are many maturing technologies that can help,” said Fran Turisco, the study’s lead researcher, who is an Emerging Practices research principal in CSC’s Global Healthcare Services Group. “What we have seen to date is only the tip of the iceberg of a wide range of technologies coming out of commercial, government and university research labs that can make a significant difference for wellness and care delivery.” Read the rest of this entry
Lawrence General Hospital offers a comfortable and extensive sleep study that will enable doctors to diagnose potential problems and begin treatment.Accommodations at the new sleep center, which opened last month, feature a private room with a full-sized bed covered in fine linens, a flat screen satellite TV, a modern art picture on the wall and soft lighting. Hospital administrators hope the new center will raise public awareness in the Merrimack Valley about sleep disorders, which have been linked to several serious health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure.
Health officials estimate that up to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep apnea, snoring, restless leg syndrome, night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep paralysis and sleep-wake schedule disorders. Nearly 95 % of these disorders go undiagnosed and are never treated, jeopardizing the health of many people who are afflicted. Close to 80 % of people who are obese are at risk to sleep apnea. Untreated sleep apnea can increase the likelihood of critical medical consequences, such as irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, heart failure, heart attack, and stroke. Sleep apnea is one of more than 80 sleep disorders and very few adults who are suffering from a sleep disorder seek medical attention.
Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that sleep disturbances in patients with well-controlled asthma could be caused by obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
According to Dr. Braido, it is likely that asthma complicates the treatment of OSA, or vice versa.”Rhinitis is a worsening factor for asthma and inflammation, and nasal congestion a risk factor for snoring. We know that snoring is strongly related to sleep apnea.”
In addition, Dr. Braido pointed out that,”Obesity is a predisposition for OSA development. The crucial question is how many of these patients suffered from sleep apnea. Anticholinergic treatments could be useful for patients with asthma and sleep apnea.”A diagnosis of OSA might be possible by monitoring levels of oral nitric oxide (NO), Dr. Braido advised. [Read Complee Post.... ]
More and more research studies are confirming what many physicians and dentists have long suspected: Poor oral health can lead to systemic health problems and diseases. The list of conditions linked to periodontitis (gum disease) reads like a who’s-who of disease, including systemic inflammation, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, chronic kidney disease, lung disease, cancer, osteoporosis, ulcers, arthritis, sleep apnea and snoring, and even serious pregnancy complications. Read the rest of this entry
