Sentences with phrase «airway resistance»

It's not sleep apnea or upper airway resistance syndrome, and it's not asthma.

She also provides therapy for craniofacial pain, upper airway resistance syndrome and sleep breathing disorders for children and adults.

Increased airway resistance from brachycephalic syndrome over a prolonged period can lead to progressive respiratory difficulty.

In 2014, researchers published a study revealing that daily inhalation of lavender oil for two weeks reduced lung mucus lowered overall airway resistance in mice with experimentally induced asthma.

The problem is this: over time the increased airway resistance from pinched nostrils can lead to increased effort to breathe in.

Smooth muscle cells also modulate airway resistance, a key factor in asthma, and gut motility, important in irritable bowel syndrome.

In humans, and in particular asthmatics, increases in specific airway resistance or decreases in forced expiratory volume or forced expiratory flow are the primary response following acute exposure...

Before diagnosis and treatment, Borelli was forced to give up many of his professional and personal interests because of the health problems caused by upper - airway resistance syndrome.

Enlarged tonsils are a major contributor to upper airway resistance and sleep disordered breathing - which in turn are major contributors to physical and psychological development of an individual.

The net effect of these changes is increased airway resistance, which increases the work of breathing.

Stress and airway resistance in children with asthma.

He settled on Christian Guilleminault, a venerated clinician and researcher at Stanford Medical School, who diagnosed him with upper - airway resistance syndrome (UARS), a condition in which the airway is partially obstructed during sleep.

Harder to diagnose but often as debilitating, upper - airway resistance syndrome is a partial obstruction of the airway.

Current testing requires a series of methods including a spirometry test, which measures the amount (volume) and the speed (flow) of air during breathing, followed by a body plethysmography test measuring static lung volumes and airways resistance and finally a diffusion test, which measures the amount of oxygen and other gases that cross the lungs» air sacs.