MedPage Today (8/30, George) reports, “More than half the people surveyed in an online population study experienced serious sleep difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, but certain individuals reported better sleep.” Speaking at the virtual SLEEP 2020, Rebecca Robillard, PhD, of the University of Ottawa, described “three distinct profiles of sleep-related behaviors…during the pandemic.”
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CNN (8/28, Thomas) reported experts wrote a letter published in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that the coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionately large impact on people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and that this population needs special support during the pandemic. The letter’s authors wrote, “People with intellectual and developmental disabilities were disproportionately isolated prior to the pandemic, and the intensification of that isolation stands only to weaken the community for all citizens.”
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— “Covid-19 has disproportionately impacted those living with developmental disabilities, “Naomi Thomas, CNN, August 30, 2020
HealthDay (8/30, Preidt) reports researchers found that older Americans with depression have shown “resilience to the stress of physical distancing and isolation.” The findings were published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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— “Seniors With Depression Show Resilience in Face of Pandemic, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 30, 2020
Healio (8/26, Ernst) reports, “Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have a standardized mortality ratio 2.5 times greater than the general population and die at a rate similar to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy,” investigators concluded after examining “mortality rates among patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures who were admitted for video-EEG monitoring.” The findings of the 5,508-patient study were published online in the journal Neurology.
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— “Diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures has ‘implications for future mortality’, “Julia Ernst, Healio, August 26, 2020
Healio (8/27, Miller) reports, “Almost 20% of young men in the United States are perpetrators of intimate partner violence, or IPV, and more than a quarter are victims of it,” investigators concluded after examining “responses from a cross-sectional, nationally representative online survey of 916 men aged 18 to 35 years.” What’s more, the survey revealed that just “13% of the survey’s respondents said a physician had asked them if they had ever been a victim of IPV.” The findings were published in the July issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
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— “Survey: Physicians miss opportunities to discuss partner violence with men, “Janel Miller, Healio, August 27, 2020
HealthDay (8/27, Preidt) reports, “Young adults who’ve had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (AD/HD) “since childhood are at increased risk for road crashes, researchers” concluded after analyzing “data from 441 children with” AD/HD “and 231 children without” AD/HD who “were followed from age seven to 25 as part of a study that involved six centers in the United States and one in Canada.” The study also revealed “no increased risk for those whose” AD/HD “symptoms have decreased.” The findings were published online Aug. 22 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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— “ADHD May Help Predict Adults’ Car Crash Risk, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 27, 2020
Psychiatric News (8/27) reports, “In a neighborhood where a mass shooting had occurred less than a year before, one-third of social services staff screened positive for mental health disorders,” investigators concluded after examining online survey responses from “167 staff members.” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Social Services Staff Found to Experience Mental Health Problems a Year After Mass Shooting, Psychiatric News, August 27, 2020
Healio (8/27, Gramigna) reports, “Dementia may be linked to nearly three times more deaths in the United States than official records show,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data of 7,342 noninstitutionalized individuals aged 70 to 99 years with baseline exposure assessment in 2000 and follow-up through 2009.”
Medscape (8/27, Harrison, Subscription Publication) reports the study revealed that “from 2000 through 2009, an estimated 13.6% of deaths were attributable to dementia – 2.7 times more than the 5.0% of death certificates that state that dementia was an underlying cause of death.” The findings were published online in JAMA Neurology.
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— “Dementia deaths may be nearly three times higher than current estimates, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 27, 2020
Healio (8/26, Gramigna) reports, “A combination of yoga, tai chi and meditation was linked to significant mental and physical health improvements among veterans,” investigators concluded in a 119-veteran “longitudinal cohort survey study” that “sought to examine the link between CIH participation and veterans’ patient-reported outcomes over time.” The findings were published online ahead of print in the September issue of the journal Medical Care.
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— “Yoga, tai chi, meditation improve veterans’ mental, physical health, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 26, 2020
HealthDay (8/26) reports, “Middle-aged men who were anxious or depressed teens are at increased risk for heart attack,” investigators concluded in “a large, long-term study” that “included more than 238,000 men born between 1952 and 1956 who underwent extensive exams when they were 18 or 19 years old and were followed to age 58.” The study revealed that “men diagnosed with anxiety or depression in their late teens had a 20% higher risk of heart attack than those who didn’t.” The findings were set for presentation “at a virtual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.”Related Links:
— “Anxious Teens May Face Higher Odds for Future Heart Attack: Study, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 26, 2020