UC San Francisco study finds women over 80 who experience increased daytime sleepiness face twice the risk of developing ...

Now, a study led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, which used sleep trackers to monitor the sleep ...

Sleep is essential to physical and mental well-being, yet for millions of women, undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is quietly undermining their health. Up to 15% of women in North America have ...

which used sleep trackers to monitor the sleep patterns of 733 women in their 80s, has found that increased 24-hour sleepiness, particularly excessive napping, was associated with a doubled risk ...

This finding adds to existing research, which has previously connected sleep patterns to dementia risk. One research published in the Alzheimer's and Dementia journal in 2016 disclosed that either too ...

A study followed the sleep patterns of older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a ...

The women were investigated using full-night ... Results: Habitual snoring was independently related to excessive daytime sleepiness (odds ratio [OR], 2.28; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.31 ...

A new study found that women in their 80s who experience increasing daytime sleepiness over five years have double the risk of developing dementia. While the study doesn’t prove that excessive sleep ...

Among women, this effect was most pronounced ... may be influenced by chronic sleep deprivation or excessive daytime sleepiness. Interestingly, the study did not find evidence that sleep apnea ...

Among patients with obstructive sleep apnea using CPAP, pitolisant given at 20 mg and 40 mg reduces excessive daytime sleepiness.