Home sleep apnea testing of adults with chronic heart failure
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a life-threatening disease with decreased long-term quality of life. Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB),...
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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Confusional arousals during non-rapid eye movement sleep: evidence from intracerebral recordings.
Analysis of intracerebral EEG activity occurring during episodes of CA. Rapid change in electrical activity associated with confusional...
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Sep 29, 20231 min read
Association of CPAP adherence with complications in patients with type 2 diabetes and OSA
In this retrospective study of patients with T2D and OSA, we aimed to explore if CPAP adherence is associated with better cardiometabolic...
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Sep 25, 20231 min read
Insomnia in patients with coronary heart disease: prevalence and correlates
Insomnia was highly prevalent in CHD outpatients and associated with psychological factors, lifestyle factors, and sub-clinical...
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Sep 21, 20231 min read
Sleep continuity, stability and organization in good and bad sleepers
Sleep continuity, stability and organization measures could be considered as indices of subclinical sleep impairment. Their analysis...
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Sep 19, 20231 min read
Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: Awareness and Tools
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) remains a significantly under diagnosed condition, despite its high prevalence. Primary care physicians...
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Sep 15, 20231 min read
REM Sleep Theta Changes in Frequent Nightmare Recallers
Further investigation is needed to fully understand brain mechanisms underlying NM production and especially how such mechanisms are...
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Aug 31, 20231 min read
Predicting epiglottic collapse in patientswith obstructive sleep apnoea
In this study, an automated algorithm was developed to objectively identify breaths with epiglottic collapse as distinct from other sites...
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Aug 29, 20231 min read
Acupuncture for insomnia with short sleep duration: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
First trial to use acupuncture as an intervention to different insomnia phenotypes. The conclusions will expand the research results of...
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Aug 24, 20231 min read
Gestational sleep deprivation is associated with higher offspring body mass index and blood pressure
Our study is the first analysis on the association between maternal sleep duration during pregnancy and later childhood health. We used...
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Aug 22, 20231 min read
The persistent gender bias in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea: a commentary
Gender differences are prevalent in the pathophysiology of most illnesses. In a personalized medicine, differences in general, and in OSA...
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Aug 18, 20231 min read
Beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
People with OSA showed higher BPV and longer QRS compared with control participants. The BPV showed only moderate or non significant...
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Aug 16, 20231 min read
Recorded and reported sleepiness: the association between brain arousal in resting state and SDS
EEG it is valuable to identify arousals preceding sleep onset. The VIGALL was introduced to measure EEG vigilance as an indicator of...
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Aug 11, 20231 min read
Increased risk of Eustachian tube disorders in patients with sleep-disordered breathing
After adjustment for confounding factors, including hypertension,hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, rhinosinusitis, AR, ATH, GERD, and the...
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Aug 9, 20231 min read
Impact of sleep alterations on weaning duration in mechanically ventilated patients
Sleep is altered in ICU patients. Those under mechanical ventilation with altered sleep (atypical sleep or no REM), had markedly longer...
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Aug 4, 20231 min read
Activity during sleep measured by a SBV Activity during sleep measured by a AD in adults
This study suggests that WA is more suited for scratch evaluation, whereas the SBV is preferable for sleep evaluation. The two devices...
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Aug 2, 20231 min read
Actimetry in infant sleep research: an approach to facilitate comparability
Infant sleep research has been limited due to different algorithms and nighttime sleep focus. Sleep quantification was optimized by...
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Jul 27, 20231 min read
Efficacy of a tele-monitoring system in CPAP therapy in Asian obstructive sleep apnea
The tele-monitoring system implementation showed a trend towards increasing CPAP nightly hour usage and significantly improved adherence...
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Jul 25, 20231 min read
Effects of OSA on the thoracic aorta and the main pulmonary artery: assessment by CT
In conclusion our study found that CT90 may influence AA and MPA sizes in patients with OSA, while in the subgroup of patients without...
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Jul 21, 20231 min read
Analysis of the complexity of patients undergoing attended PSG in the era of home sleep apnea tests
Complexity of studied patients increased by ~30% and care requirements increase with it (In-lab PSG). This could be secondary to the fact...
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