Sentences with phrase «participants for sleep apnea»

They're not sure what might explain the discrepancy, but they point out that they did not actually test participants for sleep apnea; they only asked people if they had it.

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The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

The calcification risk declined steadily as the number of sleep hours increased, even after the researchers accounted for participants» age, sex, race, level of education, whether or not they smoked, and whether or not they had sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that interrupts breathing and raises blood pressure and heart risk.