Sentences with word «obstructive»

August 16, 2016 Study suggests ways to block hypertension in those with sleep apnea Obstructive sleep apnea — a disorder that affects nearly one out of four people between the ages of 30 and 70 — is a common cause of high blood pressure.

Mrs. Lennon, 86, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Friday, Jan. 22, in her Park Ridge home, said her daughter Maureen Lennon Zeeb.

Qualcomm is working with German drug giant Boehringer Ingelheim to develop a secure, Internet - connected inhaler to make sure patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are taking their medicine properly.

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.

Shepard JWJ, Gefter WB, Guilleminault C, Hoffman EA, Hoffstein DW, Hudgel DW, et al: Evaluation of the upper airway in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Since the 1980s, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)-- in which positive pressure is pushed through the nasal airways to help users breathe while sleeping — has been by far the most widely used treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

«There is a tremendous need for effective, new treatments in obstructive sleep apnea,» said co-lead study author David W. Carley, the Katherine M. Minnich Endowed Professor Emeritus of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Medicine and Bioengineering at UIC.

Re # 5, I for one intend to be as obstructive as possible to any such ideas until 1) I can be assured that they are absolutely necessary for survival.

Chest imaging may be useful in diagnosing asthma in certain situations, including when the patient has a medically important smoking history or occupational chemical exposure, has long standing disease or mat be at risk for chronic obstructive lung disease or lung cancer.

AL said that research papers are sent to breed clubs if freely available and the KC communicates with breed clubs, as in the case of Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS).

Recent studies reveal that approximately one quarter of pregnant women may suffer from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), the recurrent cessation or limitation of normal breathing during sleep.

An FDA - approved clinical trial is underway at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children to evaluate the use of a hypoglossal nerve stimulator — a technology currently available to adults with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that stimulates the upper airway to facilitate breathing during sleep — in a select group of adolescent patients with Down syndrome and OSA.

At this time, we don't know the answer, but we do know that undertreated sleep disorders, including common conditions like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), are often linked to poor daytime cognitive function.

Yet, because of this openness, they often suffer from the ingression of mutually obstructive feelings.

The wooden knobs are lovely but perhaps smaller glass knobs would be less obstructive of that sweet farmhouse.

Push harder for principled conduct rules and fewer obstructive tactics in litigation.

We can also help fine - tune small problems that may become obstructive in achieving your ultimate goal — a happy lasting relationship.

«Further studies are needed to clearly distinguish between correlative and causal observations in proposed links between obstructive sleep apnea, aging, and age - related disease,» they write.

In its annual assessment of long - term defence projects, the committee said ministers had been «at best confused and unhelpful and at worst deliberately obstructive» when giving evidence on their 2009 report.

Learning disabilities — whether psychologically rooted or because of gaps in their education caused by obstructive behaviors — leave my students challenged to retain facts irrelevant to their lives and basic survival.

People who suffer from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) have an overgrowth of tissue that partially blocks the outlet of the left ventricle.

The most common obstructive response we observed was districts seeking to block access to buildings.

Even in human patients with peripheral obstructive artery disease, detailed diagnostic images revealed that the inferior gluteal artery expands in response to vascular stenosis (vessel hardening).

Now Labour should call time on the Act and give itself the wriggle room to call an election, which Jezza in Number 10 could do once the Act was gone, if the other parties then proved obstructive.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) released a new analysis, titled «Hidden health crisis costing America billions,» that reveals the staggering cost of undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea.

Because obstructive sleep apnea is common in patients with type 2 diabetes, investigators wonder whether disordered sleep might play a role in the link between diabetes and kidney dysfunction.

But «Neighbors» seems new and fresh and different; it's edgy without ever been outwardly offensive and bro - ish in an inclusive, not obstructive way.

Using a murine hind limb ischemia model, they compared the shape of mouse hind limb blood vessels with those of a patient who had peripheral obstructive artery disease.

Reading the correspondence reveals just how obstructive Miller was.

Brighton's obstructive approach had frustrated the visitors, set up with a back three of Gini Wijnaldum, Dejan Lovren and Emre Can due to enforced absences, for the opening half - hour.

The term «blocked tom» has been replaced for the most part by the «obstructive form of FLUTD» to describe any cat, male or female, with this life - threatening problem.

Dr. Joshua H. Atkins and Dr. Jeff E. Mandel of the University of Pennsylvania and their colleagues have developed a new «ramp control» anesthetic technique for putting patients to sleep briefly - just enough to show the «obstructive anatomy» responsible for sleep apnea.

This understanding is expected to lead to the development of treatments that strengthen the collateral circulation pathways for people suffering from peripheral obstructive arterial disease.»

Complaining in particular that «unreasonable or obstructive reviews» and reliance on a limited group of reviewers led to the publication of truly original research being delayed or prevented, Professor Smith organised the writing of a letter of protest, which was signed by a group of key stem cell researchers and sent to leading journals.

In any local Christian community the minister, no matter what he was called, might interpret oversight as domination, as exuding charm and doing nothing, or in many other irritating or obstructive ways.

Aronsohn RS, Whitmore H, Van Cauter E, Tasali E. Impact of untreated obstructive sleep apnea on glucose control in type 2 diabetes.

Making use of compression stockings could very well be an easy method for improving obstructive sleep apnea in people who have chronic venous insufficiency.

It's painfully ironic, particularly for those of who are American citizens, given that right now the single most obstructive, denialist, dangerous government on the planet in regard to climate change is in fact ours.

Clearly we should see the Kirpan in its correct context and be less obstructive towards it.

Blair is admirably unfeeling about his own ambition, writing that it was better to have Brown on the inside and a bit obstructive than on the outside and destructive.

In November 2017 the Minnesota Department of Health announced the decision to add obstructive sleep apnea as a new qualifying condition for the state's medical cannabis program.