Sleep Disorders News

Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, is halfway through its sixth decade of being mentioned in medical journals, according to a report in the World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology of Head and Neck Surgery.

Patients with untreated moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea were at higher risk for incident type 2 diabetes that was nonlinear along the continuum of apnea-hypopnea index, according to study results published in Chest.

A combination of atomoxetine and oxybutynin administered before bedtime resulted in a significant reduction in severity of obstructive sleep apnea compared with placebo in a small study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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Unrecognized severe obstructive sleep apnea is associated with a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular complications within 30 days after surgery, according to new data published in JAMA.

In the VARI-OSA-AF study, long-term sleep-disordered breathing and simultaneous atrial fibrillation monitoring conferred a relationship between night-to-night variability of sleep-disordered breathing and subsequent risk for atrial fibrillation.

Critically ill patients who have higher levels of wakefulness and the same depth of sleep in both the left and right hemispheres of their brains are more likely to experience successful weaning from mechanical ventilation, according to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

In patients with obstructive sleep apnea and high cardiovascular risk, remote telemonitoring and continuous positive airway pressure yielded similar improvement in home blood pressure after 6 months, new data indicate.

In a new study from the Spanish Sleep Network, treatment with noninvasive ventilation or continuous positive airway pressure resulted in a similar number of hospitalization days per year during 5 years of follow-up in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome and severe obstructive sleep apnea.

PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. population is getting about 1.5 to 2 hours fewer sleep than it did about 40 years ago, a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting said.