News tagged with long sleep
Sleep helps build long-term memories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Study links long sleep duration to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome in older adults
Long sleep duration is associated with an elevated prevalence of metabolic syndrome in older adults, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Short sleep increases risk of death and over-long sleep can indicate serious illness
Research carried out by the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Federico II University Medical School in Naples, Italy, has found that people who sleep for less than six hours each night were 12% more likely to ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Long and short sleep durations are associated with increased risk for diabetes
According to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, both long and short sleepers are at greater risk for diabetes. Individuals sleeping ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Mortality risk greater for elderly women who nap daily
A new study appearing in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has found that older women who reported taking daily naps had a significantly greater risk of dying. The results of the study are in contrast to a number ...
Mar 04, 2009 |
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