Sleep Disorders News

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea who used positive airway pressure consistently for 4 hours or more per night over 3 years had lower health care costs than patients with infrequent use, according to results published in CHEST.

Over time, adults with severe obstructive sleep apnea had more high attenuation areas on CT and lower lung function, which may signal early interstitial lung disease, according to data published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Compared with watchful waiting, tonsil removal yielded improvements in behavior, symptoms and quality of life at 12 months among children with mild sleep-disordered breathing, according to results published in JAMA.

The FDA has issued a safety communication regarding reports of fire, smoke, burns and other signs of overheating in DreamStation 2 CPAP machines by Philips Respironics, according to a press release.

Sleep breathing sounds recorded via smartphone yielded a “quite good” prediction of obstructive sleep apnea, according to study results published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea who have heart failure, are of older age or use an oronasal CPAP mask faced an increased risk for high residual apnea-hypopnea index variability, according to results published in CHEST.

Cardiovascular disease often occurs among patients with both COPD and obstructive sleep apnea, but there are little data evaluating how the overlap impacts disease severity, according to a presentation at the 2023 GOLD COPD conference.

Patients who reported lower levels of sleepiness after 1 month of positive airway pressure therapy showed high compliance at day 90 and adherence at day 360, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Patients on positive airway pressure demonstrated better measures of adherence and mask pressure and leakage when followed-up with telemedicine vs. standard care, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

CPAP use for 6 months reduced telomere shortening, or cellular aging, in men with obstructive sleep apnea compared with no CPAP use, according to study results presented at SLEEP 2023.