Sleep Disorders News

Saxenda, approved to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes in Europe and the United States, may reduce the number of sleep apnea episodes, likely through its promotion of weight loss, according to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Prague.

Patients with shift work disorder and insomnia with normal sleepiness have greater work and attentional impairment on event-related brain potential measures compared with patients reporting insomnia and excessive sleepiness, according to study results.

Parental history of sleepwalking was a significant predictor of sleepwalking and sleep terrors among children, according to study findings in JAMA Pediatrics.

Adults with overweight or obesity, prediabetes and sleep apnea who receive overnight continuous positive airway pressure for 8 hours a night may experience improved glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity, according to research in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Use of continuous positive airway pressure was associated with significant reduction in the recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, according to a meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology.

Individuals with sleep disordered breathing who go without CPAP therapy are at an increased risk for developing mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease at an earlier age than people without sleep disordered breathing, according to study results.

The use of home respiratory polygraphy to diagnose children with sleep apnea was reliable and comparable to the results of polysomnography and an in-laboratory respiratory polygraphy, according to study results.

Sleep apnea was prevalent in patients with asymptomatic extracranial carotid stenosis and linked with arteriosclerotic disease severity, according to study results.

Sleep physicians at Johns Hopkins University have developed a mobile app to help health care providers screen and counsel patients with the most common sleep disorders, according to a press release.

Sleep disordered breathing, obstructive sleep apnea, and other sleep-related complaints were found to be prevalent in the adult sickle cell population when screened with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, according to study results.