ReviewEuropean clinical respiratory journal2016
Prolonged partial upper airway obstruction during sleep - an underdiagnosed phenotype of sleep-disordered breathing.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Cardiovascular and somatic comorbidities and sleep measures using three hypopnea criteria in mild obstructive sleep-disordered breathing: sex, age, and body mass index differences in a retrospective sleep clinic cohort.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Article
- Flow limitation/obstruction with recovery breath (FLOW) event for improved scoring of mild obstructive sleep apnea without electroencephalography.Sleep medicine · 2020Article
- Sleep and Sleep Disorders in the Menopausal Transition.Sleep medicine clinics · 2018Review
- Among middle-aged adults, snoring predicted hypertension independently of sleep apnoea.The Journal of international medical research · 2018Article
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- In Search of a Good Night's Sleep: Hormones, Mind, Movement, and Breath.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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Abstract
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a well-recognized disorder conventionally diagnosed with an elevated apnea-hypopnea index. Prolonged partial upper airway obstruction is a common phenotype of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which however is still largely underreported. The major reasons for this are that cyclic breathing pattern coupled with arousals and arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation are easy to detect and considered more important than prolonged episodes of increased respiratory effort with increased levels of carbon dioxide in the absence of cycling breathing pattern and repetitive arousals. There is also a growing body of evidence that prolonged partial obstruction is a clinically significant form of SDB, which is associated with symptoms and co-morbidities which may partially differ from those associated with OSAS. Partial upper airway obstruction is most prevalent in women, and it is treatable with the nasal continuous positive pressure device with good adherence to therapy. This review describes the characteristics of prolonged partial upper airway obstruction during sleep in terms of diagnostics, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and comorbidity to improve recognition of this phenotype and its timely and appropriate treatment.
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