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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Sleep Disorders in Adults with Down Syndrome.

Sandra Giménez, Miren Altuna, Esther Blessing, Ricardo M Osorio, Juan Fortea

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06043440 (Randomized Control Trial of Oxygen Therapy in Children and Adolescents With Down Syndrome and Obstructive Sleep Apnea), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06043440 phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Randomized Control Trial of Oxygen Therapy in Children and Adolescents With Down Syndrome and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

TypeinterventionalSponsorBrigham and Women's HospitalRan2023 to 2027Enrolled230ConditionsDown Syndrome, Obstructive Sleep ApneaArmsOxygen
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Characterizing circadian rest-activity rhythm patterns across Alzheimer's disease continuum in Down syndrome.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  9. Impact of Alzheimer's disease on sleep in adults with Down syndrome.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  12. Neuronal oscillations in cognition: Down syndrome as a model of mouse to human translation.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2025
    Review
  13. What Can We Learn About Alzheimer's Disease from People with Down Syndrome?Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
    Review
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  15. Preliminary investigation of obstructive sleep apnea and Alzheimer's disease in down syndrome.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
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  20. Down Syndrome Biobank Consortium: A perspective.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sandra GiménezMultidisciplinary Sleep Unit, Respiratory Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08041 Barcelona, Spain.
Miren AltunaSant Pau Memory Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9709-5314
Esther BlessingDepartment of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Ricardo M OsorioDepartment of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Juan ForteaSant Pau Memory Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESNYU Langone Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep disorders, despite being very frequent in adults with Down syndrome (DS), are often overlooked due to a lack of awareness by families and physicians and the absence of specific clinical sleep guidelines. Untreated sleep disorders have a negative impact on physical and mental health, behavior, and cognitive performance. Growing evidence suggests that sleep disruption may also accelerate the progression to symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) in this population. It is therefore imperative to have a better understanding of the sleep disorders associated with DS in order to treat them, and in doing so, improve cognition and quality of life, and prevent related comorbidities. This paper reviews the current knowledge of the main sleep disorders in adults with DS, including evaluation and management. It highlights the existing gaps in knowledge and discusses future directions to achieve earlier diagnosis and better treatment of sleep disorders most frequently found in this population.

Indexed as

agingAlzheimer’s diseaseDown syndromeinsomniaobstructive sleep apneasleep disorders

Identifiers

PMID34300177
PMCPMC8306783
OpenAlexW3182444147

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