AIMS Chronic heart failure (CHF) and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) are often co-existing problems among the elderly. Apnoeic events may cause cognitive impairment. The aim of the study was to compare sleep and wake patterns, insomnia, daytime sleepiness, and cognitive function in community-dwelling CHF patients, with and without SDB, and to investigate the association between sleep-related f...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine the association of objectively measured sleep disordered breathing (SDB) with incident coronary heart disease (CHD) or heart failure (HF) in a nonclinical population. DESIGN Longitudinal analysis of a community-dwelling cohort followed up to 24 y. SETTING Sleep laboratory at the Clinical Research Unit of the University of Wisconsin Hosp...

STUDY OBJECTIVES: This study analyzed the association between the Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI) and two behavior measures, the Conners' Parent Rating Scale (CPRS-R) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in school-aged children to determine whether there is an optimal threshold of Sleep-disordered Breathing (SDB) associated with increased risk of behavior problems. METHODS: The Tucson Ch...

As a follow-up to a previous assessment of complications of sleep-disturbed breathing in 265 patients, we have reevaluated measures of sleepiness and hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (n = 518), central sleep apnea (n = 50), and subclinical sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) (n = 107). Both subjective and objective (multiple sleep latency test [MSLT]) measures indicated ...

877 Race/Ethnicity and Sleep Disturbances in US Adults—Chen et al. INTRODUCTION The prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), short sleep duration, and insomnia has increased substantially over the past two decades.1,2 Epidemiologic studies have linked sleep disturbances to adverse health outcomes including obesity,3 hypertension,3 cardiovascular disease (CVD),3,4 premature mortality,5,6 ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is suggested to be strongly associated with ischemic strokes. Risk factors, stroke subtypes, stroke lesion distribution, and the outcome of SDB in stroke patients remain unclear in Korea. METHODS We prospectively studied 293 patients (159 men, 134 women; age 68.4±10.5) with acute ischemic stroke. Cardiovascular risk factors, stroke sever...

Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a common problem with adverse cardiorespiratory, endocrinological, and endothelial effects. Recent studies demonstrate an even higher prevalence of SDB in congestive heart failure (CHF) than in a randomly selected population, with up to 40% and 11% having Cheyne Stokes respiration-central sleep apnoea and obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndromes, respecti...

Disturbed sleep is one of the major complaints of cancer patients,1,2 and includes complaints of difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, before, during and for years after treatment.3 A few studies have explored the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB),4,5 and some studies examined periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS),6 but most sleep studies conducted in cancer patients have...

BACKGROUND Disturbed sleep is a core feature of narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC). Few studies have independently assessed sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and periodic limb movements (PLMs) in non-homogeneous series of patients with and without cataplexy. We systematically assessed both SDB and PLMs in well-defined NC patients. METHODS We analyzed the clinical and polysomnographic features of 3...

Nocturnal periodic breathing (PB) closely resembling Cheyne-Stokes respiration in congestive heart failure has been reported to occur in end-stage primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). We herein describe the clinical course of a 56-year-old female patient with PPH and severe hypoxemia, hypocapnia, and right ventricular compromise in whom sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) resolved after successfu...