OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of habitual snoring among a sample of middle-aged Saudi adults, and its potential predictors.  METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2013 until June 2013 in randomly selected Saudi Schools in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The enrolled subjects were 2682 school employees (aged 30-60 years, 52.1% females) who were randomly selected an...

OBJECTIVES To compare obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in World Trade Center (WTC) responders with aerodigestive disorders and snoring with non-WTC habitual snorers, and to distinguish features of OSA in a subset of responders with worsening of snoring after 9/11 from responders with previous habitual snoring. METHODS Cross-sectional comparative study of 50 WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment P...

INTRODUCTION Adenotonsillar hypertrophy (AH) is considered the most common cause of upper respiratory tract obstruction among children. It results in a spectrum of symptoms from mouth breathing, nasal obstruction, hyponasal speech, snoring, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to growth failure and cardiovascular morbidity. Adenotonsillectomy is a typical strategy for patients with AH, but may lea...

OBJECTIVE Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with insulin resistance and dyslipidemia in adults and in obese children. However, the prevalence of such metabolic abnormalities among snoring children is unknown. This study was done to prospectively assess the relative contribution of SDB and obesity to metabolic disturbances in a large cohort of snoring children. METHODS Measurement...

ObjectivesTo study the long-term effect of tonsillotomy and tonsillectomy in young children after two years in comparison to the results after six months.MethodChildren, age 4-5 with Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) and tonsil hyperplasia, were randomized to TE (32) or TT (35). TT was performed ad modum Hultcrantz with radiofrequency technique (Ellman). An adenoidectomy with cold steel was perf...

Patients presenting with the complaint of antisocial snoring have very few options available to them of proven efficiency. Mandibular advancement devices worn intra-orally at night, have recently been shown in controlled trials to help mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea. However, there are no properly controlled studies with objective measurements on the use of such appliances for the ma...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate what effects treatments of sleep-disordered breathing have on snoring and sleepiness: snoring surgery including osteotomies, mandibular advancement device (MAD), and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). STUDY DESIGN Single-institution prospective comparative effectiveness trial. SETTING University-affiliated secondary care teaching hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHO...

BACKGROUND Short sleep has been linked to obesity. However, sleep is a multidimensional behavior that cannot be characterized solely by sleep duration. There is limited study that comprehensively examined different sleep characteristics in relation to obesity. METHODS We examined various aspects of sleep in relation to adiposity in 2005-2006 NHANES participants who were 18 or older and free o...