Sentences with phrase «in sleep apnea patients»

Exercise alsoincreases sleep quality in sleep apnea patients.

«Before this study, the recommendation to use neuraxial anesthesia in sleep apnea patients was based on no scientific foundation,» said Dr. Memtsoudis.

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Breakthroughs in everything from patient monitoring to sleep apnea are coming from Silicon Valley and could dramatically shift the current paradigm.

Physiologic studies also have shown that healthy infants are able to protect their airways and do not have increased apnea when placed supine.20 Meyers and Herbst21 showed that the amount of gastroesophageal reflux in healthy patients was not significantly affected by changes in sleep position.

While some over-the-counter mouthpieces are available online and in stores, it is best to have them specially constructed by a dentist who has experience treating sleep apnea and who will customize the mouthpiece for each patient.

«Until we have further evidence on the efficacy of medical cannabis for the treatment of sleep apnea, and until its safety profile is established, patients should discuss proven treatment options with a licensed medical provider at an accredited sleep facility,» said lead author Dr. Kannan Ramar, professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Sleep apnea may accelerate kidney function decline in diabetic patients with kidney disease, according to a study that will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2014 November 11 - 16 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA..

«This study shows that a high - risk score for obstructive sleep apnea is common in non-dialysis CKD patients with diabetic nephropathy and is associated with more rapid loss of renal function,» the investigators concluded.

In terms of diagnosis, doctors and patients may attribute daytime tiredness to «just being pregnant» rather than to sleep apnea.

A U-M pilot study published in Sleep is the first to find an association between sleep apnea severity and cognitive dysfunction in patients witSleep is the first to find an association between sleep apnea severity and cognitive dysfunction in patients witsleep apnea severity and cognitive dysfunction in patients with MS.

The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition.

The new clinical trial, led by Braley and funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, will investigate whether cognitive function in MS patients improves when sleep apnea is treated.

A companion report was also released, titled «In an age of constant activity, the solution to improving the nation's health may lie in helping it sleep better,» which summarizes the results of an online survey completed by patients currently being treated for obstructive sleep apnea (OSAIn an age of constant activity, the solution to improving the nation's health may lie in helping it sleep better,» which summarizes the results of an online survey completed by patients currently being treated for obstructive sleep apnea (OSAin helping it sleep better,» which summarizes the results of an online survey completed by patients currently being treated for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

«Clinical trial underway to evaluate upper airway stimulation therapy for sleep apnea in adolescent patients with Down Syndrome.»

«Since obstructive sleep apnea is a treatable condition that is also commonly seen in MS, we wondered, «What if some of the thinking and processing difficulties that MS patients experience do not stem directly from the MS itself, but from the effects of sleep apnea or other sleep problems?»»

People with MS face an elevated risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder in which the throat collapses during sleep, causing the patient to repeatedly stop breathing for periods of 10 seconds or longer throughout the night.

In 2006, the ASA released guidelines recommending the use of regional anesthesia, when possible, in patients with sleep apnea undergoing surgery to reduce the use of systemic opioidIn 2006, the ASA released guidelines recommending the use of regional anesthesia, when possible, in patients with sleep apnea undergoing surgery to reduce the use of systemic opioidin patients with sleep apnea undergoing surgery to reduce the use of systemic opioids.

«What comes with sleep apnea are these changes in the brain, so in addition to prescribing continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP — a machine used to help an individual sleep easier, which is the gold standard treatment for sleep disturbance — physicians now know to pay attention to helping their patients who have these other symptoms,» Macey said.

They also calculated that diagnosing and treating every patient in the U.S. who has sleep apnea would produce an annual economic savings of $ 100.1 billion.

Now, the researchers will replicate their findings in a larger sample of MS patients, and treat those patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea with positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP), the first - line treatment for OSA.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a condition where the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, resulting in snoring and interrupting breathing, and it is common in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine whether treating the sleep apnea — using CPAP or other methods — returns patients» brain chemicals back to normal levels.

«This study, for the first time, shows that the use of regional anesthesia improves outcomes in patients with sleep apnea undergoing total joint arthroplasty.

In the study, 73 adult patients with moderate or severe sleep apnea were divided into three groups.

«Our results also demonstrated an exposure - response relation in that patients with more severe sleep apnea may have a higher risk of pneumonia than patients with sleep apnea of milder severity.»

Currently, up to 25 % of patients presenting for surgery in the United States have sleep apnea.

A new study has found that reducing obstructive sleep apnea (where patients have difficulty in breathing while asleep - often associated with loud snoring) can reduce the need to get up and pee at night (nocturia).

It's also the first study to show the size of the effect of positive pressure mask treatment (CPAP) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) on their nocturia symptoms.»

A novel device implanted under the skin like a pacemaker successfully treats central sleep apnea (CSA) in heart failure patients, according to research presented today at the Heart Failure Congress 2014, held 17 - 20 May in Athens, Greece.

In a landmark 2007 study, they performed tonsillectomies on 26 kids with OSA who showed signs of vascular dysfunction; after the operations cured their sleep apnea, arterial tissue returned to normal in 20 of the patientIn a landmark 2007 study, they performed tonsillectomies on 26 kids with OSA who showed signs of vascular dysfunction; after the operations cured their sleep apnea, arterial tissue returned to normal in 20 of the patientin 20 of the patients.

He said: «The remede ® system is the first fully implantable device to treat central sleep apnea in heart failure patients.

Another recent study, published last week in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, found that as many as 94 percent of adults with Down's syndrome had some sort of obstructive sleep apnea — and in 69 percent of those patients it was seSleep Medicine, found that as many as 94 percent of adults with Down's syndrome had some sort of obstructive sleep apnea — and in 69 percent of those patients it was sesleep apnea — and in 69 percent of those patients it was severe.

Timothy L. Smith, M.D., M.P.H., of Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, and colleagues investigated the impact of comorbid obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on CRS disease - specific QOL and sleep dysfunction in patients with CRS following functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).

Similarly, only half of the patients with OSA were categorized as being at high risk for OSA on the Berlin Questionnaire, a sleep apnea screening tool, suggesting that these validated tools in the general population may not be useful for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

«Based on our findings, future studies are warranted to evaluate the utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing for cardiovascular risk stratification in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.»

This can be done using a procedure called «drug - induced sleep endoscopy» (DISE), in which stepwise doses of anesthetic doses are given to put the patient to sleep and reproduce the airway obstruction causing apnea.

In the largest study to date of the relationship between sleep apnea and diabetes, a new study of more than 8,500 Canadian patients has demonstrated a link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the development of diabetes, confirming earlier evidence of such a relationship from smaller studies with shorter follow - up periods.

STATUS: An initial laboratory trial has shown ApneaApp to be just as effective as hooking up patients to tracking instruments in a sleep clinic, the most common way to screen for apnea.

Of the 1,000 patients included in this analysis, 60 percent were male and the average age was 61; 49 percent had cardiac disease, 41 percent diabetes, 30 percent chronic kidney disease and 17 percent sleep apnea.

The researchers evaluated their anesthetic technique in 97 patients participating in a study of robot - assisted surgery for severe sleep apnea.

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.

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.

«Obesity - related illnesses, particularly obesity hypoventilation syndrome and sleep apnea, may play a role in the development of pulmonary hypertension, and so we examined whether the protective effects of obesity seen in patients with heart failure were also seen in these patients,» said researcher Jose Caceres, MD, of Jacobi Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.

The therapy, available since the early 1980s, almost guarantees relief from obstructive sleep apnea symptoms, and research shows that it lower rates of cardiovascular disease and death in patients who use it.

Results show that there was a significant reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressures among sleep apnea patients who were compliant with CPAP therapy for three months.

Depressive symptoms were assessed using the validated Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ - 9), and the presence of obstructive sleep apnea was determined objectively using overnight, in - lab polysomnography.

However, clinically significant depressive symptoms remained in only 4 percent of the sleep apnea patients who adhered to CPAP therapy for 3 months (9 of 228 patients).

Both obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and insomnia are found in a high percentage of patients with a variety of neurological diseases, according to new...

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.

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