Sleep is increasingly recognized as an important lifestyle contributor to health. However, this has not always been the case, and an increasing number of Americans choose to curtail sleep in favor of other social, leisure, or work-related activities. This has resulted in a decline in average sleep duration over time. Sleep duration, mostly short sleep, and sleep disorders have emerged as being ...

Introduction: Sleep problems can occur at any age. Inadequate sleep affects the physiological as well as psychological well-being of an individual. Thus, the objective of the present study is, to determine the pre sleep habits, duration and pattern of sleep among school children and to determine association between their sleep schedules and sleep habits. Methods: This cross-sectional study comp...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have revealed that sleep duration is linked to both obesity and hypertension. Here, we evaluated the association between sleep duration and hypertension in obese and non-obese premenopausal women using representative national survey data from the Korean population. METHODS A total of 4,748 subjects over 20 years of age from the Korean National Health and Nutrition ...

BACKGROUND The study objectives were to examine whether: 1) sedentary time is associated with sleep duration, 2) sedentary time predicts the metabolic syndrome (MetS) independent of sleep duration and vice versa, and 3) sedentary time and sleep duration have an interactive effect on the MetS. METHODS This cross-sectional study is based on the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the sleep promoting effect of BR-16A, a polyherbal formulation along with GABAergic drugs. Pentobarbitone-induced hypnosis test was used as an animal model to explore its role in sleep. Pentobarbitone produces quick the sleep latency (onset) and prolongation of total sleep time (duration). Seep latency and total sleep time were used as parameters ...

Background Short sleep duration has been related to established cardiovascular risk factors, likely obesity, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia. However, to the best of our knowledge, the associations between sleep duration and apolipoprotein concentrations and their ratios have not been investigated to date. This study aimed to explore the independent relationship of sleep duration with ...

Sleep is integral to life and sleep duration is important in sleep quality, physical, and psychological health. Disturbances in sleep duration have been associated with increased risk of metabolic disorders, hypertension, and overall mortality. Sleep disturbance has also been linked with various gastrointestinal disorders. However, the association between sleep and peptic ulcer disease (PUD) ha...

AIM Short sleep duration is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Cerebral blood flow and its regulation are affected by pathological conditions commonly observed in the elderly population, such as dementia, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus (DM), stroke, and hypertension. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of sleep duration on cortical oxygenated hemoglobin (OxyHb) us...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that sleep duration is closely associated with metabolic risk factors. However, the relationship between habitual sleep duration and blood pressure values in Japanese population has not been fully established. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study of 1,670 Japanese male subjects to clarify the relationship between habitual sleep duration an...

BACKGROUND Sleep duration affects allergic diseases; however, this association requires further investigation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between sleep duration and the prevalence of atopic dermatitis and asthma in young Korean adults. METHOD We analyzed data of 10,148 subjects (4,239 men; 5,909 women) aged 19-39 years from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Sur...