Sleep Information Center
Experts Younghoon Kwon, MD, MS, FACC, and Richard J Castriotta, MD, FCCP, FAASM, discuss the connections between obstructive sleep apnea and sudden cardiac death.
Sleep Information Center
The researchers examined the links between pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and elevated blood pressure and OSA’s orthostatic reactivity in adolescence.
Cardiovascular Disease Information Center
The AHA outlines screening, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations for obstructive sleep apnea and CV complications tied to the sleep disorder.
Asthma Information Center
Adolescent boys with a higher BMI, adenotonsillar hypertrophy, and sleep-disordered breathing have an increased risk for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea.
Pediatrics
OVERVIEW: What every practitioner needs to know Are you sure your patient has obstructive sleep apnea? What are the typical findings for this disease? Obstructive sleep apnea should be suspected in children who snore, have restless sleep or show labored breathing and/or apnea. Other nocturnal symptoms include sweating, enuresis, parasomnia (sleep walking and talking) and…
Hospital Medicine
I. What every physician needs to know. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common sleep-related breathing disorder, characterized by recurrent complete or partial obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. It is typically characterized by fragmented sleep from arousals due to respiratory events and oxygen desaturations and may result in neurocognitive dysfunction, cardiovascular comorbidities,…
Hospital Medicine
What every physician needs to know: Obstructive sleep apnea (also known as sleep apnea hypopnea, particularly outside North America) is a common disorder: population-based studies in the U.S. have shown a prevalence in the general, working-age population of roughly 9 percent of women and 24 percent of men. The prevalence rises with advancing age and,…
AANP 2021
The VA/DoD clinical practice guideline offers a paradigm shift for treating veterans with chronic insomnia or obstructive sleep apnea.
Features
Airflow disturbances during sleep need to be recognized and evaluated before harm comes to the patients themselves or those around them.
Newsline
Patients suffering chronic rhinosinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea may benefit from endoscopic sinus surgery, wrote Timothy L. Smith, MD, MPH, and colleages in a recent study, published in JAMA Otolaryngoloy-Head and Neck Surgery.
