Sleep attributes and alcohol for increase digestive tract mobility

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Hi All,

Not much big deals, but two papers lightly striking my fancy are below.

The first paper not available as a PDF seems to break down sleeping factors

for overall mortality. Getting to sleep quickly and remaining so in be (I

take it that is what “sleep efficiency means) seem to be important. Too

many rapid eye movements seem to be a problem also.

…….RESULTS: Controlling for age, gender, and baseline medical burden,

individuals with baseline sleep latencies greater than 30 minutes were at

2.14 times greater risk of death (p =.005, 95% CI = 1.25-3.66). Those with

sleep efficiency less than 80% were at 1.93 times greater risk (p =.014, CI

= 1.14-3.25). Individuals with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep percentages in

the lowest 15% or highest 15% of the total sample's distribution (percentage

of REM <16.1 or >25.7) were at 1.71 times greater risk (p =.045, CI =

1.01-2.91). Percentage of slow-wave sleep was associated with time to death

at the bivariate level, but not after controlling for potential

confounders. …..

PMID: 12554816 [PubMed - in process]

The next paper was to me interesting because I take a little alcohol and I

have a problem with slow digestive tract mobility, so the alcohol seems to

help.

Schmidt T, Eberle R, Pfeiffer A, Kaess H.

Effect of ethanol on postprandial duodenojejunal motility in humans.

Dig Dis Sci. 1997 Aug;42(8):1628-33.

PMID: 9286227 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

is PDF-available and says that alcohol speeds food mobility in the middle

digestive tract.

Cheers, Al.; email: apater@...