Researchers identify how artificial light at night may harm outcomes in cardiac patients

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In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, West Virginia University neuroscientists linked white light at night – the kind that typically illuminates hospital rooms – to inflammation, brain-cell death and higher mortality risk in cardiac patients. Randy Nelson, who chairs the Department of Neuroscience in the WVU School of Medicine, and Courtney DeVries, the John T. and June R. Chambers Chair of Oncology Research at WVU, re-created cardiac arrest in animal models. Doing so temporarily interrupted the brain’s oxygen supply. Then the researchers and their colleagues divided the models into three groups that would spend their nights …read more

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