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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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Methods for home-based self-applied polysomnography: the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Studyby Naresh M Punjabi on May 23, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Home polysomnography was successfully completed in the MACS demonstrating its feasibility in a community cohort. Given the burden of in-lab polysomnography, the methods described herein provide a cost-effective alternative for collecting sleep data in the home.
- The Impact of Sleep-Disordered Breathing on Ghrelin, Obestatin, and Leptin Profiles in Patients with Obesity or Overweightby Piotr Pardak on April 12, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirm the relationship between obesity and sleep-disordered breathing. Both these disorders affect ghrelin levels-parameters of obesity negatively correlate with hormone concentration, and OSA seems to lower ghrelin values in the second half of the night.
- Abnormal Sleep-Related Breathing Related to Heart Failureby Tripat Deep Singh on February 26, 2022
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF). Untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and central sleep apnea (CSA) in patients with HF are associated with worse outcomes. Detailed sleep history along with polysomnography (PSG) should be conducted if SDB is suspected in patients with HF. First line of treatment is the optimization of medical therapy for HF and if symptoms persist despite optimization of the treatment, positive airway pressure (PAP)...
- Sleep disorders and ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents with typical absence seizures: An observational studyby Marine Thieux on January 27, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that children with TAS are at risk of sleep and attention disorder symptoms. If attention disorders in a context of epilepsy are now widely assessed and identified, sleep disorders are still under-estimated. An accurate identification and management of sleep disorders could improve academic performances, quality of life, and seizure management in children with TAS.