Sentences with phrase «of obstructive»

But I also have faith in the economics because I see a lot of obstructive behavior happening in the field of renewable energy.

Visibility is a mixed bag, but not in the traditional way of obstructive pillars.

RK: And so long as we are not looking at our hidden commitments we will believe we can «resolve» and «diet» our way out of our obstructive behaviors.

The five other categories of obstructive responses observed are: 1) excessively denying charter applications, 2) creating legal obstacles to charter schools, 3) freezing or delaying payments to charter schools, 4) withholding information from charter schools, and 5) using regulations to restrict choice or interfere with competition.

Tasali E, Chapotot F, Leproult R, Whitmore H, Ehrmann DA.Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea improves cardiometabolic function in young obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

It has been shown that women with PCOS have higher rates of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that causes a cessation in breathing during sleep.

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea improves cardiometabolic function in young obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) rises significantly after menopause up to nearly 70 % of post-menopausal women.

There is also a loss of lung elasticity, which leads to increased collapsibility of airways and the development of obstructive lung disease.

The Chinese hope that the lack of obstructive elements in space will allow them to send data further than on earth.

The sleep health objectives are to increase the medical evaluation of people with symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, reduce vehicular crashes due to drowsy driving and ensure more Americans get sufficient sleep.

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.

«Effective treatment of obstructive sleep apnea resulted in substantial improvement in depressive symptoms, including suicidal ideation,» said senior author David R. Hillman, MD, clinical professor at the University of Western Australia and sleep physician at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.

They analyzed more than 4,000 studies performed on children aged two to 18 years old, who were referred to one of 13 leading pediatric sleep laboratories around the world for frequent snoring or other signs of obstructive sleep apnea.

«We've still got a lot to learn,» he notes, pointing out that overweight and obese people, who make up a significant percentage of the obstructive apnea population, are not considered good candidates for the procedure because of their excess airway tissue.

Tests of 159 drivers at one anonymous haulage company showed that 9 per cent suffered from severe cases of obstructive sleep apnoea, in which the throat becomes blocked during sleep.

Just as a cough can be a symptom of pneumonia, snoring can be a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea.

Snoring without evidence of obstructive sleep apnea may be an independent risk factor for hypertension and the daytime behavioral problems mentioned above, but how snoring alone causes problems remains unknown.

Although many individuals experience episodes of obstructive sleep apnea at some point in life, a much smaller percentage of people are afflicted with chronic, severe obstructive sleep apnea.

Temporary spells of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome may also occur in individuals who are under the influence of a drug (such as alcohol) that may relax their body tone excessively and interfere with normal arousal from sleep mechanisms.

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 severe.

FEV1 / FVC (a measure of obstructive lung disease) was better by a lesser amount but still statistically significant.

Three months following the surgery, his sleep study results showed a decrease of obstructive sleep apnea symptoms from an index score above 40 to below 10, and he has subsequently been able to have his tracheostomy tube removed with good results.

Notably, L - PAG reduced the number of both obstructive and central apneas in a dose - dependent and reversible manner.

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.

Based on data from the 1990s, the estimated prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the United States is 10 percent for mild OSA and 3.8 percent to 6.5 percent for moderate to severe OSA.

This decline in PAL was significantly associated with an increase in airflow obstruction (shown by a decline in FEV1) and an increase in total score on the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire, which measures the impact of obstructive airway disease on overall health, daily life, and perceived well - being.

The researchers found that patients diagnosed with the most aggressive cancers had higher prevalence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea.

Intense snoring correlates with the serious medical condition of obstructive sleep apnea, plaguing one in 15 adults in the U.S.

«Vitamin D deficiency does not increase risk and severity of obstructive sleep apnea.»

A diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea may raise the risk of osteoporosis, particularly among women or older individuals, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Medical cannabis and synthetic marijuana extracts should not be used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, according to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

«Specifically, over a period of more than four years, the defendants attempted to cover up the assault of a handcuffed prisoner by Burke by obstructing the federal grand jury investigation and, when they learned that the scope of the investigation expanded into an investigation of the obstructive conduct, the defendants then attempted to obstruct the obstruction investigation,» Rohde wrote.

One common cause of obstructive sleep apnea is enlarged tonsils or adenoids (tissues located in the passage that connects the nose and throat).

He contributes to other large - scale clinical trials including SAVE (evaluating whether treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea with continuous positive airways pressure can reduce the incidence of serious CV events in patients with established CVD), and CREDENCE, a randomised, double - blind, placebo - controlled trial assessing whether canagliflozin can slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

It does my heart no good to note that Canada has been in the forefront of that obstructive process, now joined by Australia.

Not exact matches

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which eats away at patients» ability to breathe, is a devastating condition that saps quality of life from even people with milder forms of the disorder.

Wallonia's brinksmanship has not been negotiators» first brush with an obstructive regional government; in 2014 it was the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador that threatened to derail the negotiation:

Reldesemtiv is the subject of three ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials enrolling patients with spinal muscular atrophy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Former first lady Barbara Bush died on Tuesday at the age of 92 after battling Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and congestive heart failure.

Facebook said the employment of up to 150 staff in Vancouver from around the world is only short - term, and points to the obstructive U.S. immigration system that «makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible,» to bring talented engineers to its Menlo Park headquarters, south of San Francisco.

The parameters that have accompanied the exemptive relief in these cases appear excessively obstructive to some in the crypto community, and may simply serve to highlight the scope of the jurisdiction of the securities regulators and the difficulties which arise given the application of securities laws.

In sum, even within what was assumed to be the original setting and purpose for the corrective task of the historical - critical method, the changing clientele made it either otiose or obstructive.

But those meanings and values can not be consummated in the experience of human living until this old obstructive debris is taken out of the way.

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

At Vanderbilt as elsewhere, «sectarianism» and «denominationalism» were invariably negative terms, suggestive of exclusive access, censorship, and obstructive ecclesiastical overlords.

In the practice of unilateral power many of these natural and cultivated inequalities inevitably result in obstructive and impoverishing structures of injustice.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 340) 14 But things are mutually obstructive because man is finite and incapable of incorporating all the data of the past with maximum intensity.

«The nature of evil is that the characters of things are mutually obstructive» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517).