The impact of sleeping duration on atherosclerosis in the community: insights from the Corinthia study

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep is an essential physiologic process whose disturbances have been regarded as a risk factor in various pathophysiologic processes, including atherosclerosis and...     

Atypical sleep in critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation is associated with increased mortality

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep patterns in critically ill patients’ polysomnographic sleep studies (PSG) are severely abnormal. We aimed to investigate the association of atypical sleep...     

A French update on the Self-Efficacy Measure for Sleep Apnea (SEMSA) to assess continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) use

Sleep and Breathing - The Self-Efficacy Measure for Sleep Apnea (SEMSA) is a 26-item self-questionnaire composed of three factors: risk perception of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS),...     

Overview of sleep disorders

Sleep disorders are common and can affect anyone, from every social class and every ethnic background. It is estimated that more than 70 million Americans are afflicted by chronic sleep disorders.Currently about 88 sleep disorders are described by the International Classification of Sleep Disorders as established by The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. This article describes the dyssomnias and parasomnias most commonly seen in the clinical setting of the sleep disorder clinic or laboratory.     

Decrease of perforin positive CD3+γδ-T cells in patients with obstructive sleep disordered breathing

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep related breathing disorders (SRBD) cause sleep fragmentation, intermittent hypoxia or a combination of both leading to homeostasis perturbations, including in the immune...     

Sleep apnea and galectin-3: possible sex-specific relationship

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep apnea is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Elevated plasma galectin-3 levels, a biomarker associated with myocardial fibrosis, are also...     

Cascading detection model for prediction of apnea-hypopnea events based on nasal flow and arterial blood oxygen saturation

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep apnea and hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) seriously affects sleep quality. In recent years, much research has focused on the detection of SAHS using various physiological...     

Durability of treatment effects of the Sleep Position Trainer versus oral appliance therapy in positional OSA: 12-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Sleep and Breathing - The Sleep Position Trainer (SPT) is a new option for treating patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea (POSA). This study investigated long-term efficacy, adherence,...     

Screening of sleep apnea based on heart rate variability and long short-term memory

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is a prevalent sleep disorder in which apnea and hypopnea occur frequently during sleep and result in increase of the risk of lifestyle-related...     

Development and validation of a Chinese version of the Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index

Sleep and Breathing - A Chinese version of the Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index (SAQLI) for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) undergoing treatment with continuous positive airway...     

Acromegaly and sleep apnea syndrome (author's transl)

Acromegaly associated with a Sleep Apnea Syndrome has but exceptionally been reported. Polygraphic recordings of sleep have been carried out in parallel with the determination of pituitary hormonal secretions, during the nycthemeral period before and after surgical treatment of the adenoma. There appears a Sleep Apnea Syndrome of the predominant obstructive type; the Apnea index is: 57 (N less than or equal to 4); the hypnogram is considerably jagged, with more than a thousand wakings and changes in the sleep stages, due to a great number of apneas. The deep slow sleep never occurs: no stages 3 and 4. The physiological peak of G.H. secreted in the beginning of the deep slow sleep thus does not appear in the Sleep Apnea Syndrome. The existence of a "false negative" criteria of a cured Acromegaly must be taken into consideration. The Sleep Apnea Syndrome must be differentiated from Narcolepsy and the usual Pickwickian syndrome. The Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Acromegaly seem to be two separate diseases, each one evolving independently. The cure of Acromegaly has not led to the cure of the Sleep Apnea Syndrome and the latter has not prevented the clinical and biological cure of Acromegaly. This may be an argument in favor of the independence of Acromegaly towards some hypothalamic structures.     

Levels of trace blood elements associated with severe sleep disturbance in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep disturbance is frequently observed in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), and this population usually presents imbalances in trace elements. We...     

Correction to: Durability of treatment effects of the sleep position trainer versus oral appliance therapy in positional OSA: 12-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Sleep and Breathing - The article “Durability of treatment effects of the Sleep Position Trainer versus oral appliance therapy in positional OSA: 12-month follow-up of a randomized controlled...     

Predictive ability of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders-3 in identifying risk of obstructive sleep apnea among recently unemployed adults

Sleep and Breathing - The International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD)-3 was developed to aid in the identification of these disorders. The core criterion A (ICSD-3A) to identify...     

Effects of gender,medical school class year,and majors on sleep quality in Chinese medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep problems are common in the general population, and medical students are one subgroup of the general population who appear to be especially vulnerable to poor sleep. This...     

The British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine In association with European Dental Sleep Medicine Academy (EDeSA)

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The British Society of Dental Sleep MedicineIn association with European Dental Sleep Medicine Academy (EDeSA)     

Sleep spindles,K-complexes,limb movements and sleep stage proportions may be biomarkers for amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease

Sleep and Breathing - Sleep disturbances are common in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients. Non-rapid eye movement stage 3 (N3), rapid eye movement stage...     

Relationships between sleep apnea,cardiovascular disease risk factors,and aortic pulse wave velocity over 18 years: the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort

Sleep and Breathing - The purpose of this study is to determine if apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) severity predicts future aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort. Applanation...     

Sleep and respiration: terminology and methodology

Sleep and respiratory recording techniques and the methods of interpretation employed in a clinical setting are reviewed. Sleep organization and the rules by which sleep state is classified are discussed, as well as the theory of operation pertaining to respiratory instrumentation.     

The use of oral appliances in obstructive sleep apnea: a retrospective cohort study spanning 14 years of private practice experience

Sleep and Breathing - In 2005, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine stated, “Oral appliances are indicated for use in patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who prefer...