Study reveals good night sleep could do wonders for your sex life ANI | Updated: Apr 21, 2021 16:02 IST
Cleveland (Ohio) [US], April 21 (ANI): A new study suggests that insufficient quality sleep may lead to problems in the bedroom in the form of female sexual dysfunction.
Study results are published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Both sleep and sexual function problems are common in women during midlife. More than 26 per cent of midlife women experience significant sleep symptoms that meet the criteria for insomnia, and sleep problems are reported by nearly half of women during the menopause transition. Up to 43 per cent of women report sexual problems during this same period in their lives.
Study reveals your neighbourhood may affect your brain health ANI | Updated: Apr 20, 2021 15:22 IST
Washington [US], April 20 (ANI): Middle-aged and older people living in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities had more brain shrinkage on brain scans and showed a faster decline on cognitive tests than people living in neighbourhoods with fewer disadvantages, according to a new study.
The study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say such brain ageing may be a sign of the earliest stages of dementia. Worldwide, dementia is a major cause of illness and a devastating diagnosis, said study author Amy J. H. Kind M.D., PhD, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
Here s why heavy energy drink consumption may be detrimental for your health ANI | Updated: Apr 18, 2021 14:28 IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): In the journal BMJ Case Reports, researchers have warned that heavy energy drink consumption may be linked to heart failure, the doctors suggested so after treating a 21-year-old, who had regularly drunk 4 such cans every day for around 2 years.
This report adds to the growing body of published evidence on, and mounting concerns about, the potential heart harms of these drinks, say the authors.
The young man in question ended up in intensive care after experiencing 4 months of progressive shortness of breath on exertion, breathlessness while lying down (orthopnoea), and weight loss.
Study reveals unhealthy lifestyle only explains small part of health inequity in UK, US adults ANI | Updated: Apr 15, 2021 08:08 IST
London [UK], April 15 (ANI): Unhealthy lifestyles alone only explain a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults, suggest data from two large studies published by The BMJ today.
The findings show that the poorest individuals with the least healthy lifestyle are 2.7 to 3.5 times more at risk of death than the most affluent people with the healthiest lifestyle.
While healthy lifestyles play an important role in reducing disease burden, the researchers warn that healthy lifestyle promotion alone might not substantially reduce the socioeconomic inequity in health, and other measures tackling social determinants of health are warranted.
Researchers find mindfulness can make you selfish ANI | Updated: Apr 14, 2021 07:41 IST
New York [US], April 14 (ANI): A recent study has suggested that mindfulness can make a person selfish.
It s within the area of prosocial behaviours that a new paper by University at Buffalo researchers demonstrates the surprising downsides of mindfulness while offering easy ways to minimize those consequences both of which have practical implications for mindfulness training.
Mindfulness and meditation are associated with reducing stress and anxiety while increasing emotional well-being. Plenty of scholarship supports these benefits. But how does mindfulness affect the range of human behaviours so-called prosocial behaviours that can potentially help or benefit other people? What happens when the research looks outwardly at the social effects of mindfulness rather than inwardly at its personal effects?