STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the association of sleep apnea with heart disease. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Medical wards at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. PATIENTS Three hundred fifty-three randomly selected inpatient men. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Sleep was recorded for 2 nights in the hospital. Medical conditions were obtained from hospital medical records. Cox...

CONTEXT Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been increasingly implicated in the initiation and progression of cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the interactions of OSA with cardiovascular pathophysiology and diseases. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION The MEDLINE database from January 1966 to March 2003 was searched using the Medical Subject Headings sleep, sleep apne...

background and aim: some risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea (osa) such as upper respiratory airways abnormalities and obesity overlap with the risk factors for eustachian tube dysfunction (etd). in this study, we investigated the prevalence of etd in a population of patients with osa. methods: tubal dysfunction was determined by tympanometry and inflation-deflation test in 36 patients dia...

background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is the most common type of sleep-disordered breathing. multivariable apnea prediction (map) index consists of three questions about the frequency of osa symptoms plus body mass index (bmi), age and sex that categorizes the patients to low and high risk for osa using a formula. objective map index was calculated by discounting the questions...

BACKGROUND Adverse effects of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), including sleep deprivation, can contribute to the progression of heart failure. The usual indication to diagnose and treat sleep apnea is subjective sleepiness. Previous studies suggest that patients with both heart failure and obstructive sleep apnea often do not complain of sleepiness, albeit their sleep time may be reduced. Theref...

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Deficiency of nitric oxide Association of obstructive sleep apnea with homocystein, nitric oxide and total antioxidant capacity levels in patients with or without coronary artery disease doi • 10.5578/tt.7845 Tuberk Toraks 2014;62(3):207-214 Geliş Tarihi/Received: 02.01.2014 • Kabul Ediliş Tar...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether primary snoring (PS) could be distinguished from childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) by clinical history. DESIGN Retrospective study of clinical history of 83 children with snoring and/or sleep disordered breathing who were referred for polysomnography. SETTING Tertiary referral center; pediatric pulmonary sleep apnea clinic. MEASUREMENTS...

Atypical tongue muscle activity during sleep may contribute to the development of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Inspiratory genioglossus (GG) muscle activity was investigated in 10 OSA adults and 4 symptom-free controls. On the basis of overnight monitoring during nonREM sleep, the duration of the inspiratory GG activity and the total GG activity cycle is shorter in patients with OSA. The dura...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder characterized by repetitive collapse of the upper respiratory tract during sleep, occurs in about 4% of middle-aged men and 2% of women. The incidence of the disorder is rising due to an increase in obesity and ageing of the population. Patients with obstructive sleep apnea are at elevated risk of some endocrinal and metabolic disorders, which may lead ...

UNLABELLED Pediatric patients with well-controlled OSA present few difficulties for routine dental treatment. However, patients with untreated or undiagnosed OSA can present the dental practitioner with multiple issues and challenges. Dental professionals have a unique doctor-patient relationship that affords them a role in recognizing sleep disorders by exploring the history of patients who ar...