Recent research suggests that the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) might change dramatically night-to-night, resulting in significant consequences for diagnosis and treatment. The study used multi-night in-home recordings to …
Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder: Can Polysomnography Be Useful?
Delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD) is a chronic condition with a multifactorial etiology that primarily affects adolescents, significantly influencing their quality of life. In clinical practice, the contribution of intrinsic …
Outcomes Important to Patients Diagnosed with Both COPD and Sleep Apnea: Findings from the O2VERLAP Study Focus Groups
Few studies have asked Overlap Syndrome (OS) patients what outcomes of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy are important to them, while also considering their self-reported CPAP adherence barriers and …
Ventilatory Drive Withdrawal as a Mechanism of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in REM
Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) is linked to lower ventilation and more severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) than non-REM (nREM) sleep for unknown reasons. Researchers used direct physiological measurements to …
Associations between sleep bruxism and other sleep-related disorders in adults: a systematic review
Systematic reviews on sleep bruxism (SB) as a comorbid condition of other sleep-related disorders are lacking. Such reviews would contribute to the insight of sleep clinicians into the occurrence of …
Sleep-wake misperception. A comprehensive analysis of a large sleep lab cohort
Sleep-wake misperception has mainly been reported in insomnia patients. Conversely, the present study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of sleep-wake misperception in a large cohort of patients with …
Plasma profiling reveals a blood-based metabolic fingerprint of obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic, heterogeneous and multicomponent disorder with associated cardiovascular and metabolic alterations. Despite being the most common sleep-disordered breathing, it remains a significantly undiagnosed condition.We …
Observational and genetic evidence highlight the association of human sleep behaviors with the incidence of fracture
We combined conventional evidence from longitudinal data in UK Biobank and genetic evidence from Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to infer the causality between sleep behaviors and fracture risk. We found …
To Prevent Elderly Depression, Target Sleep
Maybe the best way to prevent depression in the elderly and others is to not talk about depression at all, but focus instead on a risk factor for depression—insomnia. Insomnia …
Sleep in Women Across the Stages of Life
Women experience inadequate sleep and sleeplessness more commonly than males of similar ages from menarche through menopause. Women’s sleep architecture and sleep quality are influenced by physiological and hormonal changes …