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Please note that these educational resources are for informational purposes only and are not a replacement for a consultation with an Advanced Practice Sleep Medicine Specialist. To schedule an appointment with one of our trained specialists today, please call us at (615) 893-4821.
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6 Tips for Getting Used to CPAP and Sleeping Better Every Night
You've finally taken control of your snoring problem and have been prescribed CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) therapy for your sleep apnea. Great job! The first step is normally the hardest. After all, being hooked up to a machine and sleeping with a mask...
Can Sleep Apnea be Cured? Here’s What You Need to Know.
The best way to deal with sleep apnea is to not deal with it. Sometimes that’s not an option though, leading many to wonder: can sleep apnea be cured? We're all familiar with the adage “prevention is the best cure.” It's a wise statement— but sometimes prevention...
What Is Sleep Apnea, and How Is It Diagnosed? (And How to Treat It)
How well do you sleep at night? Sleep is a vital process that impacts you on a physical and emotional level— whether you get too much or too little, you depend on sleep to help keep yourself healthy and sane. However, some people may struggle to get the restful sleep...
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CPAP Preventing Heart Attacks Nightly
In a 12 year study of patients with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) 30% experience cardiovascular events (i.e. heart attack). Marin, Lancet 2005; 365: 1046-53
Partnership With The American Heart Association
Sleep Centers of Middle Tennessee is proud to join the American Heart Association in its endeavor to bring increased awareness about how sleep directly impacts heart health. As leaders in the field of sleep medicine, we’re proud to have proven effective outcomes for our patients.
Recently, scientific research backed by the American Heart Association (AHA) has brought renewed attention to the relationship between sleep and heart health. Sleep duration, mostly short sleep, and sleep disorders have emerged as being related to adverse cardiometabolic risk, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease.
As a result, they released a statement recommending at least seven hours of sleep per night for adults can help “to promote optimal health”. As part of its determination to promote ideal cardiac health, they’re directly addressing sleep behavior in a public health campaign.
St-Onge M-P, Grandner MA, Brown D, Conroy MB, Jean-Louis G, Coons M, Bhatt DL; on behalf of the American Heart Association Behavior Change, Diabetes, and Nutrition Committees of the Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health; Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; Council on Clinical Cardiology; and Stroke Council. Sleep duration and quality: impact on lifestyle behaviors and cardiometabolic health: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation.
Sleep Centers of Middle Tennessee and Middle Tennessee State University Co-Founded the Sleep Research Consortium (SRC) to Promote Healthy Sleep and Sleep-Related Chronic Disease Prevention.
The mission of the SRC is to facilitate research projects, community-based programs, and initiatives that promote population and individual wellness through healthy sleep and sleep-related chronic disease prevention and reduction.
Through sleep-focused research and initiatives, the SRC seeks to fulfill the following goals and objectives:
- To promote the health and well-being of Tennesseans through information sharing, development and implementation of research projects and community-based programs projects, and initiatives that focus on healthy sleep and sleep-related chronic disease prevention and reduction, obesity prevention and reduction, and improved population and individual health;
- To collaborate and share best practices with other researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, and community stakeholders;
- To develop and implement projects, programs, and interventions, programs which meet a need and improve the health of Tennesseans, and that may be replicated nationally;
- To advance and support interdisciplinary scholarly and research activity specific to healthy sleep;
- To develop and strengthen partnerships within the university, the community, the state, and nationally who have vested interest in healthy living, specifically healthy sleep and reduction of obesity and chronic disease which may be associated with poor sleep;
- To serve as a resource to the MTSU community on projects and initiatives related to sleep, obesity, chronic disease reduction and population health;
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