OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of edentulism in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study patients' were selected from the Gaziantep University Sleep Clinic and Orthodontic Department archives between the years of 2009 and 2011. Study groups were determined according to age and edentulism, and the overall study popul...

Aim. To investigate the association between sleep quality and duration with lipid and glycaemic control in Caucasian subjects with type 2 diabetes. Methods. Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in 114 type 2 diabetes (T2DM) subjects. Comparisons were made between subjects with different sleep quality and sleep duration. Hierarchical multiple regression anal...

STUDY OBJECTIVE to determine whether melatonin will improve quality of sleep in healthy older people with age-related sleep maintenance problems. DESIGN a double blind randomised placebo controlled crossover trial in healthy older volunteers. SETTING a largely urban population, Auckland, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS participants were part of the larger Possible Role of Melatonin in Sleep of ...

BACKGROUND Elevated sleep-time blood pressure (BP) is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than the awake or 24 h BP means. However, discrepancies in the diagnosis of hypertension between clinic and ambulatory measurements (isolated-office and masked hypertension) are frequently defined by comparing clinic with only awake BP. We evaluated the impact of sleep-time BP in the prognostic value...

The effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on blood pressures (BPs) in patients with resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea is not established. We aimed to evaluate it in a randomized controlled clinical trial, with blinded assessment of outcomes. Four hundred thirty-four resistant hypertensive patients were screened and 117 patients with moderate/severe obstructive sl...