Sleep Paralysis
Poor sleep quality may negatively impact physical health, finds study
People with poor objective sleep quality exhibit unfavourable physical health indicators, particularly elevated blood pressure, a study has found. Objective sleep quality consists not only of the total sleep duration, but also the amount of the different sleep stages, the duration of wake period, and the frequency of awakenings. Researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan conducted a comprehensive study involving 100 adults aged 3059 years by employing electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements to assess sleep quality for five nights at the participants' homes. Electroencephalography is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. Additionally, detailed health examinations were conducted at a health care facility in Tokyo. Ten sleep parameters derived from the EEG data collected during the five-night home study were used to categorise participants into three groupsnamely, the good sleep group (comprising 39 participants), the intermed
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Covid infection raised risk of facial paralysis more than vax: Report
The researchers found that the SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to a significant 3.23-fold increase in Bell's palsy risk compared with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
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Fit & Proper: Learn about sleep paralysis
The prevalence of sleep paralysis in India is unknown, as sleep medicine is an under-researched faculty in India
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