Topic: California Pacific Medical Center

Sleep disorders tied to mortality risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor quality sleep - whether from insomnia, sleep fragmentation, or nightmares - is associated with increased risk of death, according to several presentations this week in Seattle at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated ...
Getting five hours or less of sleep a night increases the risk of falls among women aged 70 and older, says a U.S. study.. Women who slept five hours or less per night were more likely to have two or more falls ...