Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders challenge the various systems in the body to maintain the critical functional balance called homeostasis. As with the health of many other organs in the body, kidney health can become a casualty of sleep problems.
The kidneys are two hard-working organs in the body which can suffer from the long-term consequences of poor sleep. Likewise, kidney dysfunction can negatively affect sleep quality and quantity.
Mobile Sleep Study and Wellness Tool Takes Advantage of Improvements in Release of iOS 9.3; First to Include Night Shift Mode WASHINGTON, D.C. – 21 March 2016 – Today, the American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) announced that its SleepHealth app takes advantage of improvements in Apple iOS 9.3 by being the first ResearchKit app to…
American Sleep Apnea Association and IBM Launch Patient-led Sleep Study App; First ResearchKit App on Watson Health Cloud Mobile Study Designed to Explore Connections Between Sleep Habits and Health Fuels the Creation of the World’s First Sleep Data Repository WASHINGTON, D.C. and ARMONK, N.Y. – 2 March 2016 – Today, the American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA)…
The SleepHealth App, a free sleep health analysis tool offered by the American Sleep Apnea Association and Sleeptember®, has just completed its first trip around the sun! We’re proud to announce that in one year’s time, it has become one of our most useful tools for both users and sleep health researchers. Learn the latest about…
The upcoming change to daylight saving time (DST) will make people feel like they’ve lost an hour of sleep. At 2am this coming Sunday morning, March 12, we are expected to “spring” our clocks one hour “forward.” This synchs our shared schedules to an artificial time reset. The practice originally evolved to build more sunlight into…
The Vernal (or Spring) Equinox is the more formal, scientific name for the First Day of Spring. The equinox is the moment in which the plane of the Earth’s midline, the Equator, passes through the center of the Sun. This creates the only time when the edge of night and day known as the “solar…
