Obstructive sleep apnoea – diagnosis is all very well, but treatment is necessary

“Rhetoric Teaching” is necessary for all of the university students?

A simple search for information sources shows that there are many researches and articles in the field of lecture method and comparison with other types of teaching methods. Interestingly enough, if not with certainty in all of these researches, at least in most of them, the result was in favor of non-lecturing. Previously, the authors emphasized the importance of rhetoric in a Persian letter (...

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a prevalent disorder with significant co-morbidities. Presently only rarely, treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea are curative. More typically, this is a disease that requires lifelong intervention and commitment from both the patients and healthcare providers. In light of the commitments, there is no uniform approach to treating sleep apnoea. Rather, approa...

Obstructive sleep apnoea and depression: is there an association?

In the study by KENDZERSKA et al. [1] published in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, it is reported that obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and severity measures, such as the apnoea/hypopnea index, are not related to the risk of hospitalisation for depression. The sample of the study was large with >10000 subjects, and the follow-up period was long, ∼10 years. The investigators focuse...

Obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with diabetes in sleepy subjects.

BACKGROUND Although obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) has been linked to insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, it is unclear whether there is an independent association between OSA and diabetes mellitus (DM) and whether all patients with OSA are at risk. The objective of this study was to determine the association between OSA and DM in a large cohort of patients referred for sleep diagnostic...

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is associated with deficits in