Topic: Kristen Knutson

Two months after arguably the worst natural disaster of modern times, Haiti faces further calamity as more than 200,000 quake survivors camp in putrid tent cities at risk of major flooding.The full number made homeless by the January 12 earthquake ...

Aid group shocked over lack of shelter for Haitians

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Nearly two months after Haiti's earthquake a shocking number of people lack shelter because aid groups are slow to deliver tents and tarpaulins, the international medical relief organization Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday.The result is a loss ...
Age has a lot to do with high blood pressure. In a study led by Dr Kristen L Knutson of the University of Chicago*, the sleep patterns of 578 Americans were monitored over a period of five years. Dr. Knutson and her ...
Middle-aged adults who don't get enough sleep are at increased risk of developing high blood pressure, a new study has found.. Over the course of five years, Kristen L. Knutson of the University of Chicago and colleagues collected health information, such ...

Too little sleep raises blood pressure risk: study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who get too little sleep are more likely to develop high blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Monday.The study, among the first to directly measure sleep duration in middle-aged adults, found missing an average one hour ...
Middle-aged adults who don't get enough sleep are at increased risk of developing high blood pressure, a new study has found.. Over the course of five years, Kristen L. Knutson of the University of Chicago and colleagues collected health information, such ...
Shorter sleep time and poor sleep maintenance are predictors of higher blood pressure levels and adverse blood pressure changes, according to a study published in the June 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.. Kristen L. Knutson, Ph.D., of the ...