Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
A sleep-related breathing disorder is a sleep disorder in which abnormalities in breathing occur during sleep that may or may not be present while awake.
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Wiki Number: 10-Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders
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Symptoms: sleep apnea, may include hyper and hypo (too much and too little) sleep, and movement disorders.
Progression: Some types of apnea are also “central apnea” where the brain “forgets” to breathe.
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Youtube Video: Sleep-Wake Disorders Part 2:
Breathing Related and Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
Amazon or Library Book:
Treat the Cause, Treat the Airway
Amazon or Library Book:
Sleep Interrupted
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Support Group: sleepeducation.org/sleepdisorders, 630-737-9700, (AASM-American Academy of Sleep Medicine)
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Boosting obstructive sleep apnea therapy by non-pharmacological approaches: A network meta-analysisby Marco Sforza on February 21, 2024
CONCLUSION: This network meta-analysis might encourage the most experienced clinicians and researchers in the field to collaborate and implement treatments for improving CPAP/PAP treatment adherence. Moreover, these results support the importance of multidisciplinary approaches for OSA treatment, which should be framed within a biopsychological model.
- Multilevel Risk Factors for Sleep-Disordered Breathing-Related Symptom Burden in an Urban Pediatric Community-Based Sampleby Seyni Gueye-Ndiaye on January 15, 2024
BACKGROUND: Pediatric sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) disproportionately affects children with low socioeconomic status (SES). The multilevel risk factors that drive these associations are not well understood.
- Sleep disorders causally affect the brain cortical structure: A Mendelian randomization studyby Xiang Gao on September 1, 2023
CONCLUSIONS: We found significant evidence that shorter sleep duration, as estimated by self-reported interview and accelerometer measurements, was causally associated with atrophy in the entire human brain.
- An Update on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome-A Literature Reviewby Alexandra Lorina Platon on August 26, 2023
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is the most common breathing-related sleep disorder. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of partial or complete airway obstruction during sleep, resulting in a reduction in or the total cessation of airflow, despite ongoing respiratory efforts, leading to oxygen desaturation and arousal. The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate the most common characteristics of this pathology, as well as to investigate the most effective treatment...