Disturbed Sleep and Disturbed Bowel Functions: Implications for Constipation in Healthy Individuals

Disturbed Sleep and Disturbed Bowel Functions: Implications for Constipation in Healthy Individuals

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Kok-Ann Gwee, FRCP, PhD Associate Professor, Gleneagles Hospital, Annex...

Disturbed gastric emptying in the short bowel

Accepted for publication 21 December 1992 Abstract Gastric emptying of liquid (orange juice containing technetium-99m ('Tc) labelled antimony sulphide colioid) and solid (570 kcal pancake containing O 5 mm resin microspheres labelled with Indiun-ll ("'-In)) was measured in seven patients with jejunum and no colon (jejunal lengths 30-160 cm), six patients with jejunum in continuity with the colo...

Correlation of Disturbed Sleep and Cancer Stress.

To illuminate the course of insomnia in the presence of an acute comorbidity, we examined the association between insomnia severity and breast cancer symptom severity over time and determined if this association varies with insomnia history and presleep arousal. Twenty-nine newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, who also exhibited insomnia, completed sleep diary and cancer symptom severity que...

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There are many factors that can influence an individual’s sleep pattern and quantity and quality of sleep. These factors can be cultural, social, psychological, behavioural, pathophysiological and environmental. Sleep patterns can also be influenced by society and by changes within society. In recent times we have seen the introduction of longer working hours, more shift-work and 24-7 availabil...