OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of insomnia symptoms in patients with objectively diagnosed sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). DESIGN Retrospective medical chart review of a representative sample of patients with SDB. SETTING University sleep-disorders clinic and laboratory. PATIENTS Two hundred thirty-one patients with SDB were selected from a pool of approximately 2,000 patients with ...

Sleep problems are more common in patients with renal failure compared to populations without overt severe comorbidities. Both central and obstructive forms of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) are present in patients with renal failure [1, 2]. Other sleep problems, including restless leg syndrome, periodic limb movement syndrome and insomnia, also occur at high rates in this population. As the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Snoring and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) are highly prevalent among children. The increasing trends of obesity in the pediatric population further predict an exacerbation of this public health problem. However, the impact of SDB on mood and quality of life and the confounder effect of obesity in this setting are unclear. DESIGN We studied a group of 85 clinically referred...

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN THE PRESENCE OF SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING by Amy M. Sutton The purpose of the study was to investigate whether sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) impairs executive functioning in children. Additionally, the study sought to identify the executive functions at risk in SDB and the contribution of daytime sleepiness. SDB represents a spectrum of upper airway conditions that can...

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a condition of repetitive episodes of decreased or arrested respiratory airflow during sleep. Many workers over the world remain undiagnosed and untreated for SDB, and leaving themselves at the high risk for accidents and cardiovascular disease. Since, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport distributed the sleep apnea syndrome manual toge...

A large amount of studies have investigated the association between sleep and memory systems. However, remarkably little is known of the effect of sleep disorders on declarative and nondeclarative memory for children. In the present study we examined the effects of sleep disorders on different aspects of memory functions by testing children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which is charac...

In this issue of Weatherly et al. [ ] have described in their article, Identification and Evaluation of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prior to Adenotonsillectomy in Children: A survey of Practice Patterns, how otolaryngologists approach sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children. Based on this study, SDB has overtaken recurrent throat infections as the major surgical indication for adenotonsillecto...

A retrospective chart review study was performed to determine the presence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children with primary mitochondrial disease (MD). The symptoms, sleep-related breathing, and movement abnormalities are described for 18 subjects (ages 1.5 to 18 years, 61% male) with MD who underwent polysomnography in our pediatric sleep center from 2007 to 2012. Of the 18 subject...

In a recent issue of the European Respiratory Journal, VAZIR et al. [1] demonstrated that spectral analysis of heart rate variations (HRV) may be useful as a ‘‘rule-out test’’ for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in patients with mild-to-moderate congestive heart failure (CHF). This is an interesting approach to the diagnosis of SDB in CHF patients without sleepiness. As CHF patients with Cheyn...

Clinicians frequently underestimate or do not assess sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children in ambulatory surgical centers. Identifying the disorder and obtaining information relevant to anesthesia management can be assisted by the use of a standard questionnaire during preoperative assessment. We wanted to determine whether a preoperative screening tool increases clinician awareness of S...