VOALearningEnglish2012.4.9---New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults

VOALearningEnglish2012.4.9---New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish "Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also affect people's health. In children the effects can include behavioral and emotional problems. In a new study, researchers asked parents about their children's breathing from when they were babies up to about age six. The parents also answered questions about behavior at ages four and seven. Karen Bonuck at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York led the study of about eleven thousand children. She says sleep-disordered breathing was associated with a fifty percent increase in what she calls "adverse neurobehavioral outcomes." These included hyperactivity, aggressiveness and problems relating to other children.Ms. Bonuck says the more serious the breathing problems, the more serious the behavioral issues were likely to be. Other studies have linked sleep with children's behavior, but this study was extensive enough to reject other possible causes. The study appeared in the journal Pediatrics. An estimated one child in ten snores regularly. A smaller number suffer from other sleep-disordered breathing. How well do you sleep? A popular belief is that sleep gets worse with age. But, in another new study, those who reported the fewest problems with sleep quality were people in their eighties.Researchers did a telephone survey of more than one hundred fifty thousand American adults. Michael Grandner at the University of Pennsylvania medical school says the original goal was to confirm that aging is connected with increased sleep problems. The survey did find an increase during middle age, worse in women than men. But except for that, people reported that their sleep quality improved as they got older -- or, as Mr. Grandner points out, at least they felt it did. The findings are in the journal Sleep. Health problems and depression were linked with poor sleep. But Mr. Grandner says older people who are not sick or depressed should be reporting better sleep. If not, they need to talk to their doctor. "They shouldn't just ignore it," he says. Nor should their doctor ignore it. He says health care providers generally dismiss sleep complaints from older adults as a normal part of aging. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal. Get more health news and learn English at voaspecialenglish.com. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 14Mar2012) 新的發現，對兒童的睡眠，老年人 這是美國之音特別英語衛生報告“，從http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish “睡眠呼吸障礙”是一組條件，可以干擾正常呼吸，人睡覺時，長期。這些措施包括打鼾，張口呼吸和睡眠呼吸暫停。睡眠呼吸紊亂可以做更多的不僅僅是離開讓人感覺累了第二天。它也可以影響人們的健康。在兒童的影響可能包括行為和情緒問題。在一項新的研究中，研究人員詢問孩子的呼吸從父母時，他們的嬰​​兒到六歲左右。家長還回答了約四和七個年齡的行為問題。卡倫在紐約愛因斯坦醫學院的醫學Bonuck導致約十一萬兒童的研究。她說，睡眠呼吸障礙在她所說的百分之五十增加有關“不良神經行為的結果。”這些措施包括多動症，攻擊性和其他children.Ms的問題。 bonuck說，更嚴重的呼吸問題，更嚴重的行為問題有可能是。其它研究已發現睡眠與兒童的行為，但這項研究是不夠廣泛，拒絕其他可能的原因。這項研究發表在兒科雜誌。據估計，一個孩子在10鼾聲定期。一個較小的數字，患有其他與睡眠呼吸紊亂。如何你睡了嗎？一種流行的信念是，睡眠會隨著年齡差。但是，在另一個新的研究中，那些報告睡眠質量問題最少的人在他們的eighties.Researchers超過一百五十萬美國成年人做了電話調查。在賓夕法尼亞州大學醫學院的邁克爾格蘭德納說，最初的目標是，以確認老化的連接增加睡眠問題。調查沒有發現在中年，女性比男性更糟糕的增加。但是，除了人們報告說，他們的睡眠質量提高，因為他們老了 - 或者，正如格蘭德納先生指出，至少他們覺得那樣。研究結果發表在雜誌的睡眠。健康問題和抑鬱症與睡眠不佳。但格蘭德納先生說，誰不生病或抑鬱的老年人應報告更好的睡眠。如果沒有，他們需要跟他們的醫生。 “他們不應該只是忽略它，”他說。醫生也不應忽視它。他說，衛生保健提供者通常認為正常老化的一部分作為老年人的睡眠投訴。美國之音特別英語，我亞歷克斯比利亞雷亞爾。獲得更多的健康新聞，並在voaspecialenglish.com學習英語。 （改編自一個電台節目中播出14Mar2012）