STUDY OBJECTIVE The cost and inconvenience of polysomnography make simplified techniques of screening desirable in the strategy of diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS). We have evaluated, in a prospective study of 301 consecutive patients referred for suspected sleep disorders, an index (delta index) that detects apneic events by quantifying arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) variability. S...

Cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF) is a widespread essential indicator in Sports Science as well as in Sports Medicine. This study aimed to develop and validate a prediction model for CRF based on a 45 second self-test, which can be conducted anywhere. Criterion validity, test re-test study was set up to accomplish our objectives. Data from 81 healthy volunteers (age: 29 ± 8 years, BMI: 24.0 ± 2....

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a frequent symptom of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). EDS is a high-risk factor for accidents at work and on the road. Thirty untreated patients with different levels of severity of OSA were studied concerning night sleep and EDS. The criterion for severity was the respiratory disturbance index (RDI): 15 patients were classified as 'moderately...

OBJECTIVE To identify the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients treated for head and neck cancer. Obstructive sleep apnea is a relatively common and highly morbid condition that affects 9.1% of male and 4% of female middle-aged adults.1 Patients who have been successfully treated for head and neck cancer may often have a partially obstructed upper airway which is functional dur...

INTRODUCTION A major challenge in Romania is the optimisation of antiretroviral therapy for the many HIV-infected adults with, on average, a decade of treatment experience. The RDI has developed computational models that predict virological response to therapy but these require a genotype, which is not routinely available in Romania. Moreover the models, which were trained without any Romanian ...

Lowering surface tension (gamma) of upper airway lining liquid (UAL) reduces upper airway opening (anesthetized humans) and closing (anesthetized rabbits) pressures. We now hypothesize that in sleeping obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) patients lowering gamma of UAL will enhance upper airway stability and decrease the severity of sleep-disordered breathing. Nine OSAHS patients [...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD) is associated with poor blood pressure control in hypertensive patients independent from confounding factors such as age, body mass index, alcohol, smoking and daytime blood gases. DESIGN AND METHODS This cross-sectional study of a sleep laboratory cohort was carried out at the University Hospital Sleep Disorders Ce...

Extensive evidence is presented that 3 micrograms folate/kg (6.8 nmol/kg) body weight daily will not only maintain adequate folate nutriture but also a substantial reserve body pool in normal persons. Recommendations appropriate to this extensive evidence are presented.

Smart Specialisation is a place-based approach to innovation policy that underpins significant amount of European Union funding. Following more than six years implementation, this paper contributes the evaluation based on case Portugal. This done using country’s main instrument support corporate Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) was launched in 2007 adapted accommodate 2014. Using aggr...

In Spain, water use in agriculture is expected to become limited by resources the future. It pertinent study effect of decreased irrigation on presence pests, plant damage, and arthropod communities a super-intensive olive orchard examined from 2017 2019. Arthropods were studied with visual vacuum sampling methods two treatments (T1—control T2—Regulated Deficit Irrigation (RDI)). Univariate ana...