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Taking An Inventory of Your Sleep Habits
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Can Poor Sleep Affect Your Weight?
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What's Keeping You Up?
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What Can You Do About Insomnia?
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Secrets of the Bedroom: What Happens When You Sleep?
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Why Can't You Sleep?: Understanding Sleep Problems
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Nutritional Supplements: Can They Help With Heart Disease?
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Men's Hearts, Women's Hearts: How Are They Different?
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Can Cardiovascular Disease be Prevented?
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Heart Disease Facts: What Every Woman Should Know
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Say ALOHA to Heart Disease
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Diagnosing Heart Problems
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Discussing Sleep Problems With Your Doctor
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Getting the Family into a Back-to-School Sleep Routine
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The Link Between Sleep and Depression
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When Trauma Strikes and Sleep is Lost
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Effects of Menopause on Sleep
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Paying the Price of a Poor Night's Sleep
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Gaining Control Over Sleep Problems
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When Worries Surface at Night: Sleep and Anxiety
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Late-life Sleep Problems: What's Normal?
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The Effect of Poor Sleep on Health
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Sleeping Well During the Holidays
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Seizures While You Sleep?
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The Impact of Pain on Sleep
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Webcast Transcript
It clearly contributes to the development of high blood pressure, and at least cross-sectionally, it leads to the development of heart attacks, strokes, and congestive heart failure, as well.
ANNOUNCER: For people who already have a heart condition, good sleep is yet another important factor in trying to avoid another occurrence of heart problems.
SANJAY PATEL, MD: It would seem from all the studies that are know that getting a good night's sleep is just as important as many of the other things that doctors now recommend for people who have heart disease to prevent a second heart attack or worsening of their heart disease.
ANNOUNCER: While research into the link between sleep and heart disease has many unanswered questions, what's clear is that sleep is an element in keeping both body and mind alert and healthy.
DAVID P. WHITE, MD: There's evolving evidence that getting a reasonable quantity of good quality sleep is important in maintaining health and particularly heart health.
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