OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine if a relationship exists between depression, disease severity, and sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). STUDY DESIGN Case control study. METHODS Fifty-three consecutive patients with suspected OSA were evaluated before treatment and compared with controls by using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), an...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the hypothesis that relief of nasal obstruction in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) would lead to reduce OSA severity and to discuss the available evidence on the clinical efficacy of nasal surgery as a treatment modality for OSA. STUDY DESIGN Twenty-five subjects who had reduced patency of nasal cavity and narrowing of retroglossal or retrop...

2 The aim of this study was to establish threshold TGR and MDS values which could be 3 used in regulated deficit irrigation in future work. Three irrigation treatments were 4 performed during three seasons in a 37 year-old table olive orchard in Seville (Spain). 5 Control treatment was irrigated with 125% of the crop evapotranspiration. Regulated 6 deficit irrigation (RDI) treatments were perfo...

This study was designed to validate a new home portable respiratory recording device (PRRD) to identify sleep apnoea and hypopnoea in a group of subjects (n=116), from a sample of the general population. Full night polysomnography (PSG) was used as the gold standard and simultaneously performed with PRRD. PRRD measurements included oronasal airflow (thermistry), chest wall impedance, oxygen sat...

comparability analyses are performed to investigate similarities/differences of the standard precipitation index (spi) and the reconnaissance drought index (rdi), respectively, utilizing precipitation and ratio of precipitation over potential evapotranspiration (et0). data are from six synoptic stations in south khorasan province in iran.at the first for calculating spi, the elevation-precipita...

INTRODUCTION Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a well-recognized risk factor of cardiovascular disorders and is related to metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of BMI and AHI/RDI on metabolic disturbances in patients suspected of OSA. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety-nine patients referred with suspected OSA underwent standard polysomnography or limited sleep study. ...