ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2019
Effects of CPAP therapy on cognitive and psychomotor performances in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea: a prospective 1-year study.
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- Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanisms, Diagnostics, and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Adherence to CPAP Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Prospective Study on Quality of Life and Determinants of Use.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Effects of Oxygen Prebreathing on Bubble Formation, Flow-Mediated Dilatation, and Psychomotor Performance during Trimix Dives.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Not-So-Sweet Dreams: Plasma and IgG N-Glycome in the Severe Form of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- The Associations between Results in Different Domains of Cognitive and Psychomotor Abilities Measured in Medical Students.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Association of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness with the Zung Self-Rated Depression Subscales in Adults with Coronary Artery Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The COVID-19 Lockdown and CPAP Adherence: The More Vulnerable Ones Less Likely to Improve Adherence?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Article
- The effect of age and gender on cognitive and psychomotor abilities measured by computerized series tests: a cross-sectional study.Croatian medical journal · 2020Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Preliminary Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study.Nature and science of sleep · 2020Article
- Psychomotor Performance in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome.Nature and science of sleep · 2020Article
- Impaired neurocognitive and psychomotor performance in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Determinants of depressive mood in coronary artery disease patients with obstructive sleep apnea and response to continuous positive airway pressure treatment in non-sleepy and sleepy phenotypes in the RICCADSA cohort.Journal of sleep research · 2019Article
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objectivesWe prospectively investigated the effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on long-term cognitive and psychomotor performances, and excessive daytime sleepiness in severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients.
methodsA total of 40 patients were recruited and 23 patients with severe OSA fully completed the study protocol to investigate the effects of CPAP therapy on psychomotor performance at 1, 3, and 6 months and 1 year following initiation of the therapy. Psychomotor CRD-series tests measuring reaction times of light stimulus perception, solving simple arithmetic operations, and complex psychomotor limb coordination, were used in this study. The data collected following CPAP therapy were compared to baseline values prior to the CPAP treatment for each patient.
resultsAll of the measured variables improved following CPAP treatment. However, the most pronounced effect was observed in improvement of reaction times to complex psychomotor limb coordination test (p < 0.05). Self-reported evaluation of excessive daytime sleepiness measured by Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) showed significant decrease from 10.0 ± 1.1 before to 3.5 ± 0.5 (p < 0.001), after 1 year on CPAP therapy.
conclusionsThe CPAP therapy improved cognitive and psychomotor performance on CRD-series tests with the most significant improvement observed in complex psychomotor limb coordination of severe OSA patients.
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