Disruption of sleep causes adverse health outcomes and poor quality of life. People with sleep disruption have higher levels than people without disrupted sleep of depression and anxiety and increased rates of cardiovascular diseases. Women have a higher incidence than men of insomnia and depression related to poor sleep. The types of complaints differ significantly between the sexes. Women are...

Article type: Original Article Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. The concomitant occurrence of COPD and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is named overlap syndrome. This study aimed to evaluate the severity of OSAHS in overlap syndrome patients. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conduct...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) is a respiratory sleep disorder characterized by repeated episodes of complete or partial obstruction of the upper airway. OSAS has a frequency of 4 percent and is classified according to the number of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea episodes. The OSAS diagnostic path starts with the evaluation of the patient’s clinical framework and follows an instrumen...

Sleep disturbances contribute to a high frequency of mental health and cardiovascular diseases with significant gender differences. Women have higher incidence than men insomnia are more likely complain insomnia, headache, irritability, fatigue the ‘‘typical’’ symptoms loud snoring apneas during sleep. Reproductive hormones play an important role in sleep women. In premenopausal age these prote...

background and objective: sleepiness is one of the important factors in motor vehicle accidents, especially in commercial drivers (cds). obstructive sleep apnea (osa) has an important role in developing sleepiness. the stop-bang questionnaire is used in medical examinations of commercial drivers in iran by law. this study aimed to investigate the judgment that drivers prefer not to report their...

In sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) apnea is the terminal event; whether or not an obstructive apnea is the primary event is unknown. Collapse of the pliable pharyngeal airway during life would not be detected after death and is therefore hard to prove. The distinctive distribution of petechiae at necropsy can be explained by negative intrathoracic pressure before death suggesting upper airw...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs frequently in people with Down syndrome (DS) with reported prevalences ranging between 55% and 97%, compared to 1-4% in the neurotypical pediatric population. Sleep studies are often uncomfortable, costly, and poorly tolerated by individuals with DS. The objective of this study was to construct a tool to identify individuals with DS unlikely to have moderate...

OBJECTIVE To determine if there is an indicator on the lateral cephalometric radiograph that can be used for the differential diagnosis of severe obstruct sleep apnea syndrome and simple snoring in nonobese young male adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects were Taiwanese male patients with a complaint of snoring and/or sleep apnea, whose body mass index was less than 25 kg/m(2) and who we...