Many patients that you see in clinical practice have sleep issues, but they will not share that unless they are prompted about it. Learn more from experts in sleep medicine as they discuss Getting to the Heart of Sleep Health.
Drs. Younghoon Kwon, Marie-Pierre St-Onge and Nancy Redeker explore how patients may have multiple symptoms, and they're often accompanied by dissatisfaction with sleep and patients reporting that they don't feel refreshed when they wake up in the morning.
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Beyond Insomnia: Healthcare Professional's Guide to Sleep Disorders
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Insomnia Insights: Navigating Sleep Disorders for Healthcare Professionals
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Ep 2 - Cardiovascular consequences of inadequate sleep
Many patients that you see in clinical practice have sleep issues, but they will not share that unless they are prompted about it.
In this podcast leaders in sleep medicine discuss Getting to the Heart of Sleep Health. Drs. Younghoon Kwon, Marie-Pierre St-Onge and Nancy Redeker explore how patients may have multiple symptoms, and they're often accompanied by dissatisfaction with sleep and patients reporting that they don't feel refreshed when they wake up in the morning.
Learn from experts in sleep medicine about talking with your patients.
4 Jan 2021
Ep 1 - Defining and Evaluating Sleep Health
Sleep quality is consequential to cardiovascular health.
We're just beginning to understand the effects of short sleep duration at the molecular and cellular level.
Among other side effects, lack of sleep causes our organs to secrete hormones that cause us to eat more than we really need.
What are the characteristics of healthy sleep? Sleep is important for our health, but we often take it for granted. Unfortunately, sleep is often the first thing to go when we are pressed for time.
In this informative podcast Drs. Dayna Johnson, Anne Fink and Konrad Sawicki discuss the implications of sleep for our cardiovascular health and how, at a population level, sleep quality, or lack of it, is a public health concern.
Listen and learn from experts in sleep health on the definition and evaluation of sleep health.
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