Sure there will always be the usual heaters in your home, but managing the right room temperature may become a drag. Ever so often you may have to get up, adjust it and then go back to bed. This alone is a sign of sleep deprivation. So what can you do?

Well, you have the usual electric blankets and heated bedding to turn to. While they may sound costly, you just have to take into consideration that the cold climate change will surely something you have to deal with.

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The Season of Electric Blankets and Heated Bedding

According to a new study women who deprive themselves of sleep may be more likely to die of heart disease. The research conducted at the Warwick Medical School claims that women who slept five hours or less were twice as likely to suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension) than women who slept seven hours or more a night.

“Sustained sleep curtailment, ensuing excessive daytime sleepiness and the higher cardiovascular risk are causes for concern,” lead author Prof. Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School, said in a statement.

“Emerging evidence also suggests a potential role for sleep deprivation as a predictor or risk factor for conditions like obesity and diabetes,” he added.

Sleep Deprivation Can Lead To Hypertension Risk in Women

Getting teens away from the cellphone is quite a battle for parents. Now according to a new study most teens suffer from sleep deprivation solely because of late night text messaging.

Text-messaging is contributing to sleep deprivation, said Cora Collette Breuner, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital.“Most kids go to sleep with their phone plugged in right by their heads,” Breuner said. Every ping of an incoming message is a temptation to pick up the phone.”

This is backed up by a recent survey by Teenage Research Unlimited whose findings say that most teens communicate with their friends between midnight and 5 a.m. via cell phone or texting.

Via Kansas City

Texting Causes Sleep Deprivation In Teens

A study led by Dr. Michael Chee, a neuroscientist at the National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School shows that sleep deprivation leads to temporary visual impairment!

“When people are sleep-deprived, they may not be seeing what they think they should be seeing, and it appears that this is what contributes to memory declines following sleep deprivation,” said Dr. Michael Chee

“We generally think of memory decline as a result of faulty storage of information,” Chee said. “However, if the information is not properly handled by the visual system, either as a result of a failure to direct attention appropriately or a failure of visual areas (of the brain) to process what is seen, you can forget about the later stages of information consolidation and storage.”

Via Scripps News

Sleep Deprivation Leads To Visual Impairment

An article on the website 13wham talks about how shows more than half of American women suffer from sleep deprivation. A Sleep Center has been interviewing women and some of the responses were:

Judith Lampson said, “My mind races. I think about all the things I did today. What am I going to do tomorrow? Pretty soon your mind is just running. I started out with 25 milligrams, then your build up a tolerance to that. Then you end up taking 50, sometimes 100 if 50 doesn’t work,” she said.

According to Dr. Donald Greenblatt from Strong Sleep Disorders Center “”If women are burning the candle at both ends, if women are stressed, are working hard, the first thing they give up is sleep.”

He also states: The bed is reserved for two activities and two activities only: sleep and sex,”

Sleep Deprivation In Women