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Sleep Disorders

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening with a 4-Item Instrument, Named GOAL Questionnaire: Development, Validation and Comparative Study with No-Apnea, STOP-Bang, and NoSAS.

Mar 12, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very prevalent disorder. Here, we aimed to develop and validate a practical questionnaire with yes-or-no answers, and to compare its performance with other well-vali...

Effect of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Sessions With Resonant Frequency Breathing on Sleep: A Pilot Study Among Family Caregivers of Patients With Cancer.

Mar 12, 2020

Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BF) is used as a skill in psychosomatic medicine, but is not yet established in the field of sleep. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of HRV-BF wit...

Workplace Stress in the University Clinical Settings: Comparison between the Cardiac Unit snd Emergency Center Medical Staff.

Mar 12, 2020

Stress at work is a specific type of stress arising from the work environment. Stress of the medical staff has been investigated in recent years by the medical institutions of different countries. The...

Sleep structure in sleep bruxism: A polysomnographic study including bruxism activity phenotypes across sleep stages.

Mar 12, 2020

The aim of the study was to assess sleep structure, phenotypes related to bruxism activity and basic respiratory parameters among a large group of participants with sleep bruxism and without obstructi...

Neferine and lianzixin extracts have protective effects on undifferentiated caffeine-damaged PC12 cells.

Mar 09, 2020

The embryos of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn seeds, lianzixin, are used in China as food and traditional herbal medicine. Principal therapeutic indications are insomnia, anxiety and pyrexia. Caffeine is a p...

Lateral pharyngoplasty techniques for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a comparative experimental stress test of two different techniques.

Mar 09, 2020

To show the different effects of expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty (ESP) and barbed reposition pharyngoplasty (BRP) on muscle tension and muscle fiber tearing using a comparative experimental stress ...

Serum Clara cell secretory protein (CC-16) in non-smoking patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Mar 09, 2020

This study aimed to determine the association between the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and serum Clara cell protein (CC16) levels in non-smoking patients with OSA.This prospective study i...

Mindfulness and nocturnal rumination are independently associated with symptoms of insomnia and depression during pregnancy.

Mar 09, 2020

Insomnia and depression are highly prevalent perinatal complications. Ruminating on stress is etiologically implicated in both disorders, and ruminating while trying to fall asleep has been linked to ...

Bedtime Hypertension Treatment & Cardiovascular Risk

Mar 06, 2020

“Multiple clinical trials over the last 3 decades have documented that the effects on blood pressure (BP) and the safety profile of antihypertensive medications depend on the time of ingestion,” ...

Palatal Sensory Function Worsens in Untreated Snorers but not in CPAP-treated Sleep Apnea Patients, indicating Vibration-induced Nervous Lesions.

Feb 17, 2020

Signs of both motor and sensory nervous lesions have previously been shown in the upper airway of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients and habitual snorers.snoring per se may damage all upper airway...

Post-9/11 Veteran Satisfaction With the VA eScreening Program.

Feb 17, 2020

eScreening is a mobile health technology resource for veterans and staff to support Veterans Health Administration initiatives such as early identification of health problems, shared decision-making, ...

Motor vehicle accidents in CPAP-compliant obstructive sleep apnea patients-a long-term observational study.

Feb 17, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been associated with a 2- to 7-fold risk of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment may reduce MVA risk. We further explo...

Intracranial hypertension and cortical thickness in syndromic craniosynostosis.

Feb 17, 2020

To evaluate the impact of risk factors for intracranial hypertension (ICH) on cerebral cortex thickness in syndromic craniosynostosis.ICH risk factors including papilloedema, hydrocephalus, obstructiv...

Pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea in individuals with the COPD + OSA Overlap syndrome versus OSA alone.

Feb 17, 2020

Overlap syndrome (OVS) is the concurrence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and is associated with poor outcomes. We hypothesized that physiological ch...

Sleep time and sleep-related symptoms across two generations - results of the community-based RHINE and RHINESSA studies.

Feb 13, 2020

To analyze the association between sleep-related symptoms and sleep length in parents and their children in relation to other risk factors in both generations.The participants were parents (n = 5,85...

Adolescent Sjogren's syndrome presenting as psychosis: a case series.

Feb 13, 2020

Neurological involvement has been reported in up to 80% of adults with Primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) with psychiatric abnormalities including anxiety, depression, and cognitive dysfunction being co...

Resting-state brain network topological properties and the correlation with neuropsychological assessment in adolescent narcolepsy.

Feb 13, 2020

To evaluate functional connectivity and topological properties of brain networks, and to investigate the association between brain topological properties and neuropsychiatric behaviors in adolescent n...

Hypnotic prescription by GPs is associated with their personal drug consumption but not by their insomnia status.

Feb 13, 2020

French general practitioners (GPs) are known to widely prescribe medications to treat insomnia despite their negative effects. GPs' easy access to self-medication may affect their mental representatio...

Drug prescription patterns and factors associated with polypharmacy in >1 million older adults in Tokyo.

Feb 13, 2020

To determine the patterns of concomitant drug use for chronic diseases and examine the risk factors of polypharmacy in older outpatients.Data were extracted from an anonymized health insurance claims ...

[THE INFLUENCE OF NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION ON NASAL RESISTANCE].

Feb 13, 2020

Tracheal intubation is a vital and common procedure during surgical care. The tracheal tube may be inserted orally or trans-nasally. Nasal intubation enables a non-restricted approach for oral and oro...

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