SynthesisThe journal of spinal cord medicine2016
Sleep disordered breathing in spinal cord injury: A systematic review.
Synthesis in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06514950 (Yoga Breath Training to Improve Cardiorespiratory Synchrony in Spinal Cord Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Yoga Breath Training to Improve Cardiorespiratory Synchrony in Spinal Cord Injury
Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in people with tetraplegia-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Spinal cord · 2021Pooled it
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- General Sleep Disturbance Scale (GSDS-IT) in people with spinal cord injury: a psychometric study.Spinal cord · 2020Trial
- Feasibility, Validity and Economic Impact of a Home-Based Sleep Screening Test in the Detection of Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Individuals Living With Spinal Cord Injury: A Multi-Method Study and Cost-Minimisation Analysis.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- An update on sleep disordered breathing in spinal cord injury.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2025Review
- What Links Sleep and Neuropathic Pain?: A Literature Review on the Neural Circuits for Sleep and Pain Control.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Review
- Screening for treatment-required sleep apnoea in patients with spinal cord injury within one year after injury in a rehabilitation setting.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2024Observational
- Prevalences of sleep-related breathing disorders and severity factors in chronic spinal cord injury and abled-bodied individuals undergoing rehabilitation: a comparative study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024Article
- The Role of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure Identified in Critical Care, Inpatient, and Outpatient Settings.Sleep medicine clinics · 2024Review
- Cerebrovascular Reactivity Following Spinal Cord Injury.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children with Neuromuscular Disease.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Review
- Changes in respiratory structure and function after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: observations from spinal cord and brain.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Noninvasive respiratory assistance as aid for respiratory care in neuromuscular disorders.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Review
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- Limb accelerations during sleep are related to measures of strength, sensation, and spasticity among individuals with spinal cord injury.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Respiratory plasticity following spinal cord injury: perspectives from mouse to man.Neural regeneration research · 2022Review
- Therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia: A translational roadmap for spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disease.Experimental neurology · 2022Review
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- Perceived sleep problems after spinal cord injury: Results from a community-based survey in Switzerland.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
contextSpinal cord injury commonly results in neuromuscular weakness that impacts respiratory function. This would be expected to be associated with an increased likelihood of sleep-disordered breathing.
objective(1) Understand the incidence and prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in spinal cord injury. (2) Understand the relationship between injury and patient characteristics and the incidence of sleep disordered breathing in spinal cord injury. (3) Distinguish between obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea incidence in spinal cord injury. (4) Clarify the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and stroke, myocardial infarction, metabolic dysfunction, injuries, autonomic dysreflexia and spasticity incidence in persons with spinal cord injury. (5) Understand treatment tolerance and outcome in persons with spinal cord injury and sleep disordered breathing.
methodsExtensive database search including PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL and Web of Science.
resultsGiven the current literature limitations, sleep disordered breathing as currently defined is high in patients with spinal cord injury, approaching 60% in motor complete persons with tetraplegia. Central apnea is more common in patients with tetraplegia than in patients with paraplegia.
conclusionEarly formal sleep study in patients with acute complete tetraplegia is recommended. In patients with incomplete tetraplegia and with paraplegia, the incidence of sleep-disordered breathing is significantly higher than the general population. With the lack of correlation between symptoms and SDB, formal study would be reasonable. There is insufficient evidence in the literature on the impact of treatment on morbidity, mortality and quality of life outcomes.
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