STUDY OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine if primary care providers (PCPs) screen for sleep disorders during clinical evaluation of new patients, and to compare this to likely sleep diagnoses as assessed by validated questionnaires. METHODS Adult patients evaluated as new patients in a primary care clinic at a tertiary care center were included in a prospective study. Foll...

PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in obese patients scheduled for bariatric surgery and their identification for risk of OSA by Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) and excessive daytime sleepiness by Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). METHODS Fifty nine patients were evaluated by BQ and ESS. Out of these individuals, 35 performed a full-night sleep study using a type 3 por...

N-Acetylanthranilate Amidase from Arthrobacter nitroguajacolicus Rü61a, an / -Hydrolase-Fold Protein Active towards Aryl-Acylamides and -Esters, and Properties of Its Cysteine-Deficient Variant † Stephan Kolkenbrock, Katja Parschat, Bernd Beermann, Hans-Jürgen Hinz, and Susanne Fetzner* Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, and Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Westfälische...

Melih K. Sener,† Deyu Lu,†,‡ Thorsten Ritz,§ Sanghyun Park,†,‡ Petra Fromme,#,⊥ and Klaus Schulten*,†,‡ Beckman Institute, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Physics, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniVersity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, Max-Volmer ...

1 Functional Characterization of the Amino-Terminal Region of Myosin-2 Setsuko Fujita-Becker, Georgios Tsiavaliaris, Reiko Ohkura, Takashi Shimada, Dietmar J. Manstein, and Kazuo Sutoh From the Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Jahnstr. 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Carl-Neubergstr.1, 30623 Hannover, Germany,...

Lai Siew Mei Pauline, B.Pharm, PhD Department of Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya Primary Care Research Group (UMPCRG), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia tel: +60379493920 email: [email protected] In this April issue of the Malaysian Family Physician, there are two manuscripts on the validation of instruments. The first manuscript is the validation of t...

H. M. Gleiter10, N. Ohadb, J. Hirschbergb, R. Frommea, G. Rengera, H. Koikec, and Y. Inouec a M ax-V olm er-Institut für Physikalische und Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische U niversität Berlin, B undesrepublik D eutschland b D epartm ent o f Genetics, The H ebrew U niversity o f Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904, Israel c The Institute o f Physical and Chem ical R esearch (RIK.EN), W ako, Saitam a ...

Osama Shekhah,*,† Hui Wang,† Stefan Kowarik,‡ Frank Schreiber,‡ Michael Paulus,§ Metin Tolan,§ Christian Sternemann,§ Florian Evers,§ Denise Zacher,| Roland A. Fischer,| and Christof Wöll*,† Ruhr-UniVersität Bochum, Physikalische Chemie 1, 44780 Bochum, Germany, UniVersität Tübingen, Angewandte Physik, 72074 Tübingen, Germany, UniVersität Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, 44227 Dortmund, Germa...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a risk factor for coronary artery disease, remains under diagnosed. We investigated if OSA identified by the Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) is associated with the risk of coronary artery disease. Cases were patients referred for elective coronariography. The cases were classified with significant coronary lesions (stenosis ≥ 50% in an epicardial coronary) or without si...

INTRODUCTION The Berlin questionnaire (BQ) is a common tool to screen for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in the general population, but its application in the clinical sleep setting is still challenging. The aim of this study was to determine the specificity and sensitivity of the BQ compared to the apnea-hypopnea index obtained from polysomnography recordings obtained from a sleep clinic in Ira...