Description
The question that does not get asked
Cardiology clinics ask about smoking, exercise, diet and alcohol as a matter of routine. Sleep is asked about rarely, and when it is, the answer rarely changes anything — despite consistent associations between short sleep, disrupted sleep and cardiovascular outcomes.
These 436 pages give both the clinician and the patient somewhere to go with it.
Written for the patient, useful to the clinician
The Academy lists it as patient-facing material, but members report reading it themselves — partly because sleep medicine was absent from most of our training, and partly because clinicians as a group sleep badly.
Practical rather than prescriptive
Twelve chapters on what actually shifts sleep duration and quality: timing, light exposure, caffeine and alcohol handled honestly rather than moralistically, shift work, and the behavioural approaches with the best evidence. It is clear about what sleep hygiene advice can and cannot achieve, which most popular writing on the subject is not.
When to think of apnoea
A chapter is given to obstructive sleep apnoea and when a patient should be asking for assessment — relevant given how much of it sits undiagnosed in cardiology clinics, particularly among patients with resistant hypertension or atrial fibrillation.
PDF, lifetime access, at CardiologyBooks.com.
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