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European Respiratory Review, 2016 Sleep apnoea is a disorder characterised by repetitive pauses in breathing during sleep caused by airway occlusion (obstructive sleep apnoea) or altered control of breathing (central sleep apnoea).
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Sleep apnoea and the heart [PDF]
European Respiratory Review, 2013 Sleep apnoea is associated with significant daytime functioning impairment and marked cardiovascular morbidities, leading to a significant increase in mortality. Sympathetic activation, oxidative stress and systemic inflammation have been shown to be the
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Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in children
Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2016 Sleep-related breathing disorders in children are a clinical problem which is more and more often diagnosed by doctors nowadays. They can be the basis for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome that causes a number of complications: lowering the ...
Anna Włodarska, Anna Doboszyńska
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REM sleep obstructive sleep apnoea [PDF]
European Respiratory ReviewObstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can occur in both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep or be limited to REM sleep, when the upper airway is most prone to collapse due to REM sleep atonia. Respiratory events are usually longer and more desaturating in REM than in NREM sleep.
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Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
EBioMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: Autonomic dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is an enzyme of the cholinergic system, a major branch of the autonomic system, and may ...
Carmel Therese Harrington +2 more
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Multimorbidity and overall comorbidity of sleep apnoea: a Finnish nationwide study
ERJ Open Research, 2022 The prevalence of sleep apnoea is increasing globally; however, population-based studies have reported a wide variation of prevalence estimates, and data on incidence of clinically diagnosed sleep apnoea are scant.
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Links between Sleep Apnoea and Insomnia in a British Cohort
Clocks & Sleep, 2023 Poor sleep is a major public health problem with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes. Insomnia and sleep apnoea are the two most common causes of poor sleep, and recent studies have shown that these disorders frequently co-occur ...
Yizhou Yu
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Background: obstructive sleep apnoea is a common and burdensome condition, characterised by obstruction of the airway during sleep at the level of the pharynx, which may occur with symptoms or without any symptoms.
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BMC Medicine, 2021 Background Sleep apnoea, a common sleep-disordered breathing condition, is characterised by upper airway collapse during sleep resulting in transient hypoxia, hypoperfusion of the optic nerve, and spike in intracranial pressure.
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Sleep apnoea is common in severe peripheral arterial disease. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Atherosclerotic conditions have been demonstrated to be associated with sleep- disordered breathing (SDB). Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) represents severe atherosclerosis with a high mortality. In early stages of PAD a substantial prevalence of sleep
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