BACKGROUND This study has two main goals: 1.) to determine the potential influence of dopaminergic drugs on sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in Parkinson's disease (PD) and 2.) to elucidate whether NREM and REM sleep differentially impact SDB severity in PD. METHODS Retrospective clinical and polysomnographic study of 119 consecutive PD patients and comparison with age-, sex- and apnea-hypopn...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sleep-related breathing disorders occur frequently after stroke. We assessed the feasibility of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment initiated in the first night after stroke. METHODS In this open-label, parallel-group trial, 50 patients were randomly assigned to the CPAP therapy or to the control group. All patients underwent polysomnography in the four...

Study Objectives: To validate the feasibility of the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) based cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) technique in respiratory events detection and estimating the severity of apnea/hypopnea. Methods: The HHT-CPC sleep spectrogram technique was applied to a total of 69 single-lead ECG signals downloaded from Physionet Sleep Apnea Database. Sleep spectrograms generated by both o...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the clinical, anthropometric, and polysomnographic characteristics of a broad group of patients with sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome according to sex. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study, conducted in 6 Spanish university hospitals, included consecutive patients attended from 2003 through 2005 with an apnea-hypopnea index greater than 5. Groups were for...

Background—Prospective data suggest that sleep-disordered breathing enhances risk for incident and recurrent cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, a reverse causal pathway whereby incident CVD causes or worsens sleep-disordered breathing has not been studied. Methods and Results—A total of 2721 Sleep Heart Health Study participants (mean age 62, standard deviation 10 years; 57% women; 23% mino...

BACKGROUND Prospective data suggest that sleep-disordered breathing enhances risk for incident and recurrent cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, a reverse causal pathway whereby incident CVD causes or worsens sleep-disordered breathing has not been studied. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 2721 Sleep Heart Health Study participants (mean age 62, standard deviation=10 years; 57% women; 23% mi...

Obstructive sleep apnea causes intermittent elevation of systemic blood pressure (BP) during sleep. To determine whether obstructive apnea in children has a tonic effect on diurnal BP, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure was obtained from 60 children with mean age of 10.8 +/- 3.5 years. Thirty-nine children had obstructive apnea and 21 had primary snoring. Children with obstructive apnea had sign...

Aim: The aim of this study will be to perform respiratory physiotherapy on patients with sleep bruxism and associated events (apnea hypopnea). Methodology: a randomized, controlled, double-blind, clinical trial sample individuals events. Respiratory (inspiratory and/or expiratory) performed using the THRESHOLD IMT PEP results compared placebo group. Discussion: Regarding events, there is broad ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that comorbidity, performance of concurrent sleep apnea procedures in addition to uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, body mass index, apnea-hypopnea index, and lowest oxygen saturation are risk factors for serious perioperative complications after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. DESIGN Prospective cohort and nested case-control studies. SETTING United States Veterans Aff...