Patients with the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS) have impaired daytime function with demonstrable sleepiness and impaired cognition. The hypothesis that brief arousals from sleep cause these daytime impairments was tested. One hundred and fifty patients with sleep disordered breathing were studied prospectively, comparing overnight polysomnography with daytime measures of objective slee...

The well-known greedy triangulation GT(S) of a finite point set S is obtained by inserting compatible edges in increasing length order, where an edge is compatible if it does not cross previously inserted ones. Exploiting the concept of so-called light edges, we introduce a definition of GT(S) that does not rely on the length ordering of the edges. Rather, it provides a decomposition of GT(S) i...

Abstract Background Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs) has been generally considered a benign condition, which usually regresses as the stimulus for insulin production disappears, resulting normalized left wall thickness 6 months life. However, these conclusions have based on small, mostly outdated cohort studies. Indeed, it recently shown that increased ma...

The study objective was to determine whether sleep extension (a) improves alertness and performance during subsequent sleep restriction and (b) mediates the rate at which alertness and performance are restored by postrestriction recovery sleep. Twenty-four healthy adult participants (ages 18-39) were randomly assigned to an Extended [10 hours time in bed (TIB)] or Habitual [mean (SD) = 7.09 (0....

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of strength training using a sliding rehabilitation machine (SRM) on the gait function of cerebral palsy children. [Subjects and Methods] Thirteen children aged 6-18 years participated in the SRM training for 8 weeks (30 min/day, 2 times/week). The SRM is designed for the performance of a closed-kinetic chain exercise in which...