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How to use the word Napping in a Sentence?

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From a clinical standpoint, I think it highlights the importance for health care providers to routinely ask patients about napping and excessive daytime sleepiness and evaluate for other contributing conditions to potentially modify the risk for cardiovascular disease.

Phyllis Zee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A refreshing power nap that's 15 to 20 minutes around noon to 2 p.m. is 100 % the way to go if you're sleep deprived, if you have chronic insomnia we don't encourage napping because it takes away the drive to sleep at night.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We figured this would be a good day to celebrate the importance of napping because everyone is one hour more sleep-deprived than usual, the fact is that the majority of Americans are sleep-deprived even without Daylight Saving Time.

William Anthony.Naps

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are making sure we’re not caught napping. In the event this happens again, we’re going to do better.

Om Shrivastav

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This means the former pattern of occasional napping is intentional and the latter of more regular napping likely represents sub-clinical illness linked to poorer lifestyle. This would then explain the differential risks, i don't think one can work out from this work whether.

Naveed Sattar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Daytime napping was associated with increased risks of major cardiovascular events and deaths in those with [ more than ] six hours of nighttime sleep but not in those sleeping [ less than ] 6 hours a night.

Chuangshi Wang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Napping could reflect underlying ill-health( fatigue, tiredness) eventually leading to morbidity and mortality, could be a proxy for sleep deprivation, as a compensatory catch-up mechanism, or could also be a symptom of circadian misalignment.

Chuangshi Wang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you're lucky enough to have an office, shut the door and just don't tell anyone you're napping! i can't tell you how many executives have shown me their sleeping bags under their desks.

Rebecca Robbins

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At one time we thought naps were bad for sleep and bad for us, i think we're starting to understand [napping is] a much more complex phenomenon.

Natalie Dautovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

[Regular] napping is associated with increased risk of disease.

Francesco Cappuccio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The study doesn't imply you shouldn't let your kids nap, there are only so many hours a day that you can sleep, but that doesn't mean that napping leads to poor sleep.

Jodi Mindell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Napping past age 2 is very common, there are plenty of 3-year-olds that nap and have no problems at all with night sleep.

Marc Weissbluth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping.

Rita Rudner

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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