British Society of Pharmacy Sleep Services (BSPSS)’s Post

“Sleep apnea events during REM sleep are linked to verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights the importance of focusing on sleep-stage-specific apnea severity for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Women were found to have more REM-related apnea events, potentially increasing their Alzheimer’s risk. The study underscores the need for personalized sleep apnea assessments to address cognitive decline.” Key Facts: REM Sleep Apnea: Higher apnea events during REM sleep correlate with worse verbal memory. Sex Differences: Women experience more REM sleep apnea, potentially raising Alzheimer’s risk. Personalized Treatment: Focusing on REM-specific apnea events is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment. https://lnkd.in/dnhNp4Mw ------------------------- Join the bspss.org (FREE) to get online, free CPD and access to services to help suspected sleep disorder sufferers in an evidence-based way. We're all about 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲® by advancing community pharmacy sleep services to improve patient outcomes in primary care. #MakingSleepAccessible #SleepDisorders #CommunityPharmacy

“Sleep apnea events during REM sleep are linked to verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights the importance of focusing on sleep-stage-specific apnea severity for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Women were found to have more REM-related apnea events, potentially increasing their Alzheimer’s risk. The study underscores the need for personalized sleep apnea assessments to address cognitive decline.” Key Facts: REM Sleep Apnea: Higher apnea events during REM sleep correlate with worse verbal memory. Sex Differences: Women experience more REM sleep apnea, potentially raising Alzheimer’s risk. Personalized Treatment: Focusing on REM-specific apnea events is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment. https://lnkd.in/dnhNp4Mw ------------------------- Join the bspss.org (FREE) to get online, free CPD and access to services to help suspected sleep disorder sufferers in an evidence-based way. We're all about 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲® by advancing community pharmacy sleep services to improve patient outcomes in primary care. #MakingSleepAccessible #SleepDisorders #CommunityPharmacy

“Sleep apnea events during REM sleep are linked to verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights the importance of focusing on sleep-stage-specific apnea severity for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Women were found to have more REM-related apnea events, potentially increasing their Alzheimer’s risk. The study underscores the need for personalized sleep apnea assessments to address cognitive decline.” Key Facts: REM Sleep Apnea: Higher apnea events during REM sleep correlate with worse verbal memory. Sex Differences: Women experience more REM sleep apnea, potentially raising Alzheimer’s risk. Personalized Treatment: Focusing on REM-specific apnea events is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment. https://lnkd.in/dnhNp4Mw ------------------------- Join the bspss.org (FREE) to get online, free CPD and access to services to help suspected sleep disorder sufferers in an evidence-based way. We're all about 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲® by advancing community pharmacy sleep services to improve patient outcomes in primary care. #MakingSleepAccessible #SleepDisorders #CommunityPharmacy

“Sleep apnea events during REM sleep are linked to verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights the importance of focusing on sleep-stage-specific apnea severity for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Women were found to have more REM-related apnea events, potentially increasing their Alzheimer’s risk. The study underscores the need for personalized sleep apnea assessments to address cognitive decline.” Key Facts: REM Sleep Apnea: Higher apnea events during REM sleep correlate with worse verbal memory. Sex Differences: Women experience more REM sleep apnea, potentially raising Alzheimer’s risk. Personalized Treatment: Focusing on REM-specific apnea events is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment. https://lnkd.in/dnhNp4Mw ------------------------- Join the bspss.org (FREE) to get online, free CPD and access to services to help suspected sleep disorder sufferers in an evidence-based way. We're all about 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲® by advancing community pharmacy sleep services to improve patient outcomes in primary care. #MakingSleepAccessible #SleepDisorders #CommunityPharmacy

Sleep Apnea During REM Linked to Memory Decline Link: https://lnkd.in/eGGjscbq Sleep apnea events during REM sleep are linked to verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights the importance of focusing on sleep-stage-specific apnea severity for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Women were found to have more REM-related apnea events, potentially increasing their Alzheimer’s risk. The study underscores the need for personalized sleep apnea assessments to address cognitive decline. Key Facts: - REM Sleep Apnea: Higher apnea events during REM sleep correlate with worse verbal memory. - Sex Differences: Women experience more REM sleep apnea, potentially raising Alzheimer’s risk. - Personalized Treatment: Focusing on REM-specific apnea events is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment. #sleep #sleephealth #health #healthcare #sleeptrends #sleep2024 #osa #sleepapnea #cpap #hme #memory

Kudo's; fresh publication about sleep and musculoskeletal pain. Conclusion: Patients with sleep impairment had worse mental and physical health scores than those without sleep impairment, and only 19.0% received sleep health intervention. These data suggest that sleep impairment is common in patients presenting for evaluation of a musculoskeletal condition, and advanced provider education and tools to help patients improve their sleep health are needed. No medical advice, but topics to ponder. Snore? Get home sleep study if sleep clinic evaluation is delayed. Circadian dysregulation? The one constant symptom in the dozens of post concussion symptoms. Remember we know this is less healthy than being a shift worker that regularly works nights that also has consequences. Sleep onset problems? If you have PTSD and you are afraid to go to sleep and capitulate yourself to exhaustion to sleep with distraction, this is incompatible with decent health and medication alone won't work long term. Sleep maintenance problems? Too much for a post. Try a ice cap to cool down racing thoughts. Cold to the face is parasympathetic. Not for those that pass out/syncope and only try in bed at first. Reduced sleep quantity? Sleep (actigraphy) scores based on wrist movement can be helpful for those high performers that cut corners on sleep. Not a game changer for chronic fatigue patients that value sleep and have non-restorative sleep. Non-restorative sleep? A key starting to chronic fatigue and ME/CFS. Completely scrap the diagnostic code for 'idiopathic hypersomnia'. It's okay to treat fatigue on the back end with daytime stimulants to function better, however sleep studies should start measuring more upstream and measure parasympathetic function with HRV to track how your mitochondrial housekeeping of inflammation. Cognitive fatigue? Brain fog is cognitive impairment and/or cognitive fatigue. For those with cognitive fatigue without impairment, this is reassuring to focus on non-restorative sleep. #physiatry #fatigue #autonomicrehabilitation

Yale University scientists uncover link between impaired sleep and indications of poor brain health Link: https://lnkd.in/d5-5rx_G Led by Santiago Clocchiatii-Tuozzo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine, the researchers gathered self-reported sleep data from the past nine years and neuroimaging scans from almost 40,000 middle-aged adults. Defining suboptimal sleep durations as less than seven hours and more than nine hours per night, the researchers found a link between those with poor sleep durations and neuroimaging profiles often associated with worsened brain health that precedes issues such as strokes and dementia.  “We found a significant correlation between suboptimal sleep durations and poor brain health, even after accounting for variables such as nicotine and diabetes,” Clocchiatii-Tuozzo told the News.  The researchers analyzed the presence and volume of white matter hyperintensities — subcortical brain lesions that often reveal themselves on MRI scans and are strong indicators of brain aging and reduced blood flow. They also found the average of 48 white matter tracts to create a fractional anisotropy, a statistic that indicates the brain’s overall connectivity and white matter integrity.   “We focused our attention on these neuroimaging metrics [because they] are known to precede stroke and dementia,” Clocchiatii-Tuozzo said.  According to Clocchiatii-Tuozzo, middle age is a crucial time to improve sleep duration.   Christine Won, the medical director of the Yale Center of Sleep Medicine, specializes in disordered breathing and sleep impairments in women. In an interview with the News, Won noted that sleep disorders, especially sleep apnea, become more common for women as they age because “there are so many hormonal changes that occur throughout a woman’s life span.”  More broadly, Won said that the study highlights the importance of sufficient sleep to increase healthy longevity. #sleep #research #sleep2024 #sleephealth #sleepapnea #health #healthcare #wellness #hme #cpap #osa

✅ Key Takeaway and other points: ✅✅✅What it does mean: Potential atrial fibrillation events and premature beats are notated in WatchPAT sleep study reports. 🔴 Cardiologists say they refer patients to sleep medicine but don’t get many referrals from sleep medicine. Sleep specialists and cardiologists hope that ZOLL Itamar’s new Arrhythmia Detection feature will facilitate more cardiology referrals from sleep medicine. 🟣 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently gave ZOLL Itamar’s Arrhythmia Detection feature clearance to identify/detect atrial fibrillation events and premature beats (but not to diagnose them) as supplemental information to WatchPAT home sleep studies. 🔵 It doesn’t replace cardiac event/Holter monitoring or similar diagnostic procedures, and there’s no change in the device’s intended use: The WatchPAT is a home sleep apnea device for diagnosing sleep-related breathing disorders.

"More than 5 million people in the U.S. have AF, and studies have shown a strong association between AF and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB)." “We have known for some time that patients with sleep apnea who experience significant drops in oxygen saturation during sleep are at greater risk for adverse cardiac events,” adds co-author Michael Faulx, MD, a cardiologist in Cleveland Clinic’s Section of Clinical Cardiology. “Additionally, Dr. Mehra has previously demonstrated a link between decreased oxygen saturation during sleep and increased expression of molecular markers of oxidative stress. These new findings add a clinical piece to this puzzle that further supports the importance of sleep apnea screening and treatment in patients with AF. #sleepapnea #hearthealth #afib #wellness #preventivehealth

These two signs during sleep means you will soon get Alzheimer's Hot flashes, especially during sleep, may indicate a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease in women, according to a study using blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. Women make up two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's, and there are several theories as to why, many of which focus on the drop in estrogen levels that occurs during the menopause transition. Dr. Rebecca Thurston, director of women's biobehavioral health at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. Pauline Mackey, professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, led the research. Based on the results of the research, Dr. Thurston and Maki and their group concluded that hot flashes during sleep may indicate women at risk of dementia and Alzheimer's. In addition, a greater degree of sleep flushing was associated with an increased likelihood of Alzheimer's. These findings remained significant after further adjustment for estradiol and sleep characteristics assessed by actigraphy (a tool for diagnosing some sleep disorders). Hot flashes were measured objectively using electrical skin conductance monitoring on an ambulatory basis. Among other things, the findings suggest that women who experience frequent hot flashes, especially during sleep, may need efforts to reduce their risk of dementia and Alzheimer's, Dr. Thurston said. Dr. Stephanie Faubion, Medical Director of the Menopause Association added: "Given the adverse impact on quality of life and the financial burden of Alzheimer's disease, it is important that we learn as much as possible about the potential causes and warning signs so that we can approach Alzheimer's disease before it begins." be preventive. This research emphasizes the need for ongoing open dialogue between patients and healthcare professionals so that each treatment option can be carefully considered. The results of this research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Menopause Association this year as part of the presentation entitled "Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause and Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers".