Sentences with word «hypopnea»

The primary endpoint was a reduction in apnea hypopnea index (AHI) at three months compared to baseline with six and 12 month data also collected.

Six of these episodes were preceded by apnea, three showed hypopnea (marked reduction in ventilation) and one had certral apnea (no respiratory efforts).

The 97 patients studied had severe sleep apnea, with a median of 48 apnea - hypopnea events (complete or partial interruptions of breathing) per hour on standard testing in the sleep laboratory.

In normally healthy individuals with hypertension or heart failure, the amount of this rostral fluid shift at night is clearly correlated with the amount of increase in the circumference of the neck at night and the amount of apneas and also hypopnea each hour of sleep.

Experts say apneas are complete cessations of 10 seconds or longer, whereas hypopneas can be less specific, but are often defined as a «reduction in ventilation of at least 50 percent,» enough to reduce the oxygen in your blood.

The USPSTF found at least adequate evidence that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and mandibular advancement devices (MADs) can improve intermediate outcomes (e.g., the apnea - hypopnea index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale score, and blood pressure) in populations referred for treatment.

Untreated severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased aggressiveness of malignant cutaneous melanoma, according to the first multicenter prospective study on the relationship between sleep - disordered breathing (apnea or hypopnea) and cancer.

Six weeks of treatment by the highest dose of dronabinol (10 milligrams) was associated with a lower frequency of apneas or hypopneas (overly shallow breathing) during sleep, decreased subjective sleepiness and greater overall treatment satisfaction compared to the placebo group.

The authors defined sleep - disordered breathing as an apnea - hypopnea index (AHI), which measures the number of stopped or shallow breaths per hour, as AHI > 15, and sleep apnea syndrome as AHI > 5 (below 5 is normal) plus self - reported sleepiness (based on a standardized scale).

OSA is usually measured using the apnea - hypopnea index (AHI), the number of times that breathing pauses or severely slows per hour of sleep.

The authors state, «We believe a revision of the operative definition of OSA may be necessary, to reflect not simply the frequency of apneas and hypopneas, but the actual physiologic consequences that result — the severity of oxygen desaturation, sleep fragmentation, sleep deprivation and sympathetic activation.

The overall prevalence of OSA was 45 %, and 21.8 % of the study subjects had severe OSA, as assessed with the apnea - hypopnea index (AHI), which indicates OSA severity based on the number of apneas (complete cessation of airflow) and hypopneas (partial cessation of airflow) per hour of sleep.

Sleep apnea severity was assessed with the apnea - hypopnea index (AHI), which indicates severity based on the number of apneas (complete cessation of airflow) and hypopneas (partial cessation of airflow) per hour of sleep.

Total apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)-- which measures severity of sleep apnea by counting the number of pauses in breathing during sleep — for all patients significantly decreased an average of 35 events per hour after the device was planted, which corresponds to an average reduction of 84 percent.

A recent study by Drs. Thaler, O'Malley, Weinstein and other colleagues at Penn found that the TORS approach achieved a significant reduction in the apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)(an index used to assess the severity of sleep apnea), a significant improvement in minimum arterial oxygen saturation (the amount of oxygen in your blood that maintains healthy organ functioning), and a significant improvement in daytime drowsiness in patients.

Children with sleep - disordered breathing will commonly snore and have repeated episodes of under - breathing (hypopnea) and not breathing at all (apnea) during sleep.

Obstructive sleep apnea was defined as having an apnea - hypopnea index of 10 or more hypopneas (partial reductions) and apneas (complete pauses) in breathing per hour of sleep.

Individuals also had a 60 % decrease in increase of neck circumference, that the researchers made use of as a proxy measurement to approximate fluid shift in to the neck and a 36 % decrease in the amount of apneas and hypopnea every hour of sleep.

For sleep apnea in particular, insurers use the Apnea - hypopnea index.

The AHI calculates apnea (pauses in breathing) and hypopnea (shallow breathing) during an individual's sleep.

It's traditionally divided into two terms: apnea and hypopnea.