December 25, 2015
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We all know as adults what it takes to lose weight and as parents how to prevent our children from packing on unhealthy pounds in the first place: diet and exercise are the two pillars of any weight-reduction/obesity prevention program. But what if there was a third approach we have been largely ignoring, which could contribute substantially to our ability to achieve and maintain a healthy weight? That important and often overlooked factor: sleep.
A large number of studies now support a connection between both sleep amount and timing and an increased risk of obesity in adults, children and teens. When you examine the trajectory of increasing rates of obesity in the United States and the concurrent decline in average sleep duration, the graphs are nearly parallel, strongly suggesting that there is an association between the two.
Both cross-sectional studies (which look at the relationship between sleep and weight/Body Mass Index [BMI] at Time Point A) and prospective studies (which examine the relationship between sleep duration at Time Point A and BMI at a later Time Point B) have demonstrated that short sleep and increased weight are closely related even when controlling for factors we know to contribute to obesity, like family history, television viewing and socioeconomic status.
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August 15, 2015
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Studies have shown that poor sleep — a lack of sleep or waking several times throughout the night — is linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Experts know that bad sleep bolsters the development of amyloids beta, peptides involved in the formation of the degenerative brain disease.
Researchers at Stony Brook wondered if different sleep positions influenced amyloid beta in the brain. They examined rats and found that sleeping on the side makes it easier for the brain to eliminate the amyloid beta.
While sleepers take for granted their positions, doctors know that how people snooze can reveal health problems. People with sleep apnea, cardiac disease, acid reflux, or neurological disease with impaired swallowing often sleep inclined on their backs.
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May 1, 2014
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Long considered little more than a nuisance, snoring is no longer something to ignore — to the delight of frustrated bed partners everywhere. To sleep physicians, snoring is a sign that something’s up.
“When you are snoring, you’re spending too much energy to breathe,” says Dr. M. Safwan Badr, M.D., president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. “Snoring is like fever for a general internist — it tells you somethig is going on, but it doesn’t tell you what.”
Snoring occurs when a person’s airways have narrowed, causing the air that passes through it as we breathe to vibrate the soft tissue of the throat. “In principle, snoring is not normal,” he says. As a physician, he says he would want to know why that person is snoring in order to provide the best treatment, rather than have a snorer attempt to take her medical care into her own hands. “I would make sure that the body isn’t telling us to look for sleep-disordered breathing or sleep apnea,” he says.
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August 6, 2013
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By T. Jared Bunch, MD
As a practicing electrophysiologist, or heart rhythm specialist, I see daily the effects of heart rhythm disorders. Unfortunately, electrical problems of the heart are common and are on the rise in our community. They can present with symptoms that vary broadly from palpitations to sudden death. The most common heart rhythm problems are often the results of risk factors that we can control or treat such as obesity, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, inactivity, diabetes, and smoking. These and other risk factors can injure the heart from events such as a heart attack or narrowing of the coronary arteries. All degrees of injury in turn result in stiffening or weakening of the heart’s pumping chambers (ventricles) and enlargement of the small upper chambers of the heart (atrium). These injuries in all chambers of the heart leave scar and fibrosis and can cause disruptions to the normal electrical conduction of the heart and electrical disorders develop.
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T. Jared Bunch, MD
Dr. T. Jared Bunch a native of Logan Utah graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine and received alpha omega alpha honors. He completed internal medicine residency and fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and electrophysiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He received the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award for clinical care of patients and the Donald C. Balfour Award for meritorious research. He served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic from 2003-2007, before joining his current partners at Intermountain Heart Rhythm Specialists. He currently directs heart rhythm research at Intermountain Medical Center and is the medical director for heart rhythm services for the Intermountain Healthcare network.
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