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Obstructive Sleep Apnea- A Comprehensive Review of Risk Factors, Pathogenesis and Management

Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College, 2021
Sleep is a blessing to humans. Good quality of sleep helps people to live and enjoy their lives. Obstructive sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder accompanied by the onset of sleep, apnea or hypopnea , choking sensation and loud snoring.
Noura Homood Saeed Alshahrani, Monerah Mohammed Ayed Alqahtani, Ghada Hassan Abdullah Alshahrani, Muhammad Abdullah kamran   +3 more
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Interfering with sleep apnea [PDF]

Bioelectronic Medicine
AbstractThe effects of electromagnetic interference have been hiding in plain sight for millennia and are now being applied to the non-invasive stimulation of deep tissues. In the article by Missey et al., the effect of non-invasive stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve by an interference envelope of interfering carrier waves is examined in mice and ...
Nigel Paul Pedersen, Raul Castillo Astorga   +1 more
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The Use of Nasal Dilator Strips as a Placebo for Trials Evaluating Continuous Positive Airway Pressure [PDF]

, 2012
Objectives: The aim of the current study was to compare the objective and subjective effects of continuous positive airway pressure to the use of nasal dilator strips in patients with acromegaly and moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea. Methods: We
Amaro, Aline C.S., Bronstein, Marcello D., Duarte, Felipe H.G., Jallad, Raquel S., Lorenzi-Filho, Geraldo, Redline, Susan   +5 more
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Association between mean platelet volume and cardiovascular disease in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

SAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is associated with cardiovascular diseases. Mean platelet volume has emerged as a marker of prothrombotic conditions and cardiovascular risk.
Souha Kallel, Khouloud Kchaou, Ines Kharrat, Mohamed Amin Chaabouni, Sirine Ayedi, Ilhem Charfeddine   +5 more
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Developing Community-Appropriate Sleep Apnea Messaging Through Appreciative Inquiry and Boot Camp Translation: A Qualitative Study

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
Undiagnosed sleep apnea is a substantial burden in the United States, leading to negative health impacts and unnecessary costs. Diagnosing sleep apnea is challenging due to a lack of evidence to justify universal screening and discomfort associated with ...
Tristen L. Hall, Matthew J. Simpson, Griselda Peña-Jackson, John M. Westfall, Donald E. Nease, Jr.   +4 more
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Correlation between cephalometric data and severity of sleep apnea [PDF]

, 2014
IntroductionObstructive sleep apnea syndrome has a high prevalence among adults. Cephalo- metric variables can be a valuable method for evaluating patients with this syndrome.ObjectiveTo correlate cephalometric data with the apnea-hypopnea sleep index ...
Carvalho, Eduardo George Baptista de, Crespo, Agrício Nubiato, Duarte, Alexandre Scalli Mathias, Faria, Ana Célia, Pinheiro, Laíza Araújo Mohana, Silva, Vanessa Gonçalves, Silveira, Priscila Leite da, Zancanella, Edilson   +7 more
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Noncontact Sleep Monitoring With Infrared Video Data to Estimate Sleep Apnea Severity and Distinguish Between Positional and Nonpositional Sleep Apnea: Model Development and Experimental Validation

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
BackgroundSleep apnea is a respiratory disorder characterized by frequent breathing cessation during sleep. Sleep apnea severity is determined by the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), which is the hourly rate of respiratory events.
Sina Akbarian, Nasim Montazeri Ghahjaverestan, Azadeh Yadollahi, Babak Taati   +3 more
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Differential effects of high-fat diet on salivary and gut microbiota

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
ObjectivesMicroorganisms contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity, while more studies focus on gut microbiome. However, the relationship between oral microbiota and obesity has yet to be elucidated.
Jingxuan Bai, Jingxuan Bai, Yixue Tian, Yixue Tian, Yujia Lu, Yujia Lu, Yuke Chen, Yuke Chen, Min Yu, Min Yu, Xuemei Gao, Xuemei Gao   +11 more
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Pathophysiology of Sleep Apnea [PDF]

Physiological Reviews, 2010
Sleep-induced apnea and disordered breathing refers to intermittent, cyclical cessations or reductions of airflow, with or without obstructions of the upper airway (OSA). In the presence of an anatomically compromised, collapsible airway, the sleep-induced loss of compensatory tonic input to the upper airway dilator muscle motor neurons leads to ...
Jerome A. Dempsey, Barbara J. Morgan, Sigrid C. Veasey, Christopher P. O'Donnell   +3 more
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Diagnosing and managing sleep apnea in patients with chronic cerebrovascular disease: a randomized trial of a home-based strategy [PDF]

, 2017
Background Obstructive sleep apnea is common and associated with poor outcomes after stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). We sought to determine whether the intervention strategy improved sleep apnea detection, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA ...
Agarwal, Rajiv, Austin, Charles, Bravata, Dawn M., Burrus, Nicholas, Chumbler, Neale, Concato, John, Ferguson, Jared, Foresman, Brian, Matthias, Marianne S., McClain, Vincent, Miech, Edward J., Ofner, Susan, Sico, Jason, Vaz Fragoso, Carlos A., Williams, Linda S., Yaggi, H. Klar   +15 more
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