What’s the Ideal Amount of Sleep? – It all depends!

We found this post in Ask Yahoo about the ideal amount of sleep. Ask Yahoo says, “It all depends!”

National Sleep Foundation says that adults should get seven to nine hours of sleep a day while adolescents needs about 85.-9.5. Infants sleep the most (14-15 hours a day). The post also talks about benefits of taking naps.

Heart Failure / Sleep Apnea Link

A study that monitored 164 people over seven years (results to be published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology on April 17th) appears to show a link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and fatal heart failure. According to the study, heart failure patients who suffer from untreated OSA are twice as likely to die from heart failure as those who do not suffer from OSA. 

UPI has more details about the study and its findings.

Spontaneous Pain? Get More Sleep…

NBC 5 Chicago is running a story on their website about a recent study conducted by Dr. Michael T. Smith of JHU. Dr. Smith found that women who were frequently woken up from their sleep experienced a higher rate of spontaneous pain. Here is the kicker – the spontaneous pain may cause them to be woken up even more frequently in the night. It’s a viscous cycle…

 Another article about the same study