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Article: Detecting REM sleep via blood flow in finger might help prevent heart attacks.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- July 2, 2003
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2003 JUL 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More heart attacks occur during the early morning hours than at other times. Most rapid eye movement (REM) or dream sleep also occurs in the early morning hours. Researchers have long suspected a connection between the two.
A novel, U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved device developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and at Itamar Medical Ltd., an Israeli technology company, easily and reliably identifies the onset and duration of REM sleep by tracking changes in the blood flow through the finger. This could have strong implications for prevention of heart attacks and other cardiac events by ...