apnea


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transient cessation of respiration

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"Our results indicate a cancer risk that's elevated two- to three-fold among women with pronounced sleep apnea. It's impossible to say for sure what causes underlie the association between sleep apnea and cancer, but the indication means we need to study it in more depth," said Grote.
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The 2019 study published in the West African Journal of Medicine said moderate to severe risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was observed in 51.4 per cent of patients with chronic kidney disease, 58.5 per cent of hypertensive and 17.3 per cent of apparently healthy participants.
This observation is based on a limited amount of data.10 As such, the objective of the study was to make a comparison between theophylline and caffeine when used in standard doses in order to treat and prevent AOP in pre-term neonates to determine any differences in regards to (i) the episodes of apnea (ii) the relationship between serum concentration of methylxanthines and related apneic episodes and (iii) the requirement for monitoring of drug.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is associated with many eye diseases as mentioned above.
The sleep efficiency, percentage of time in different sleep stages, apnea index (AI), hypopnea index (HI), apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), arousal index, oxygen desaturation index (ODI), rapid eye movement (REM) AHI, REM ODI, percentage of total sleep time with [O.sub.2] saturation <90%, mean [O.sub.2] saturation and minimum [O.sub.2] saturation levels were evaluated.
Diagnosis and management of childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
"Sleep deficiency due to either sleep apnea or insufficient sleep duration is strongly associated with motor vehicle crashes in the general population, independent of self-reported excessive sleepiness," the authors write.
Logistic regression was used to predict the univariate association of prevalence of sleep apnea and relevant variables.
Sleep apnea can begin as early as infancy, and develop at any age thereafter regardless of gender or ethnicity.
Question: Based on my snoring and from everything I've read, I think I may have sleep apnea. But I don't want to spend a night at the hospital for sleep testing.
M2 PHARMA-January 12, 2017-Sleep Apnea Diagnostic System Market to Reach USD 600m by End of 2026, Research and Markets Predicts
DENVER -- Pregnant women with sleep apnea are more likely to have planned obstetric interventions, results of an Australian population-based cohort study suggest.
Maternal sleep apnea was also associated with increased rates of planned preterm birth, even though preterm birth is widely considered the greatest contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality, Yu Sun Bin, PhD, said at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.