This will allow us to
research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Not exact matches
«In this paper, we try to put together the information that led us to the controversial hypothesis that
obstructive sleep apnea accelerates age - related decline, which has promoted debate and stimulated
research in the field,» says co-author Claudia Cavadas of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra.
Research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered that patients who suffer from both Type 2 diabetes and
obstructive sleep apnea are at greater risk of developing a condition that leads to blindness within an average period of less than four years.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may put elderly people at greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to new
research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
«Children with
obstructive sleep apnea are fidgeting and not able to stay on task, because they're doing anything they can to stay awake,» says first author Seockhoon Chung, M.D., Ph.D., who began the
research as a U-M
research fellow but is now associate professor at Asan Medical Center in South Korea.
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.
The
research found that daytime sleepiness is considerably reduced with surgery, a common side effect from
obstructive sleep apnea in comparison to other non-surgical treatment options.
Faculty that are currently using the facility are pursuing groundbreaking biomedical
research in such fields as biomedical devices, tissue engineering,
obstructive sleep apnea biomechanics also collaborating with several major New York City - based hospitals.