Nov 05, 2020

There is currently no standard of care in terms of anesthesia modality for patients receiving upper airway surgery with comorbid obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Although both total intravenous anesthes...

Nov 05, 2020

The purpose of this study was to identify the quality of sleep in novice and experienced shift work nurses and compare the factors associated with their quality of sleep.We analyzed the data of 192 an...

Nov 02, 2020

The data concerning the association of smoking and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are limited. The effects of cigarette smoking on OSA still remain obscure.To reveal the impact of smoking on obstructiv...

Nov 02, 2020

This study examined the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and assessed mental illness via an online survey among healthcare workers (HCWs) at the Central Hospital of Wuhan af...

Nov 02, 2020

Suboptimal sleep, including insufficient/long sleep duration and poor sleep quality, is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) common but there is little information among African Americans, a...

Oct 29, 2020

User dropout is a widespread concern in the delivery and evaluation of digital (ie, web and mobile apps) health interventions. Researchers have yet to fully realize the potential of the large amount o...

Oct 29, 2020

Insomnia symptoms are common after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to treat sleep disturbances and insomnia (CBT-I) has been used to improve sleep outcomes. It is u...

Oct 26, 2020

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the Turkish reliability and validity of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Sleep Scale in patients who have obstructive sleep apnea.The data of the study...

Oct 26, 2020

To evaluate the performance of the NoSAS (neck, obesity, snoring, age, sex) score, the STOP-Bang (snoring, tiredness, observed apneas, blood pressure, body mass index, age, neck circumference, gende...

Oct 26, 2020

The objective was to assess the effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We hypothesized a decrease in...

Oct 22, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is increasingly prevalent in the range of 2% to 24% in the US population. OSA is a well-described predictor of pulmonary complications after elective operation. Yet, data...

Oct 22, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common in people with intellectual disabilities (ID), but in practice continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is often deemed unfeasible. We investigated adherence ...

Oct 22, 2020

To investigate the lingual artery (LA) position in the tongue base through intraoperative ultrasound (IOU) imaging during transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and evaluate bleeding complications with or w...

Oct 15, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent condition. OSA is defined as very severe when the apneas/ hypopneas index (AHI) is greater than 60 events/hour. However, its prevalence remains uncertain. ...

Oct 15, 2020

Primary insomnia (PI), the most common sleep disorder, is primarily characterized by difficulties in initiating and maintaining sleep and deficits in daytime functioning. Study of white matter (WM) co...

Oct 12, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) results in systemic intermittent hypoxia. By one model, hypoxic stress signaling in OSA patients alters the levels of inflammatory soluble cytokines TNF and IL6, damages ...

Oct 12, 2020

Alcohol use disorder (AUD), a chronic brain disorder, is characterized by a multitude of symptoms, including insomnia, during withdrawal. Previously, we have shown that rats exposed to chronic alcohol...

Oct 12, 2020

The aim of this study was to explore the risk of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in patients with insomnia.This was a population-based retrospective cohort study based on data from 2000 to 2013. Data fro...

Oct 08, 2020

Sleep-disordered breathing is highly prevalent in the elderly population. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) represents the most common sleep disorder among the adult and elderly population. Recently, OSA ...

Oct 05, 2020

This study investigated the effect of a repeated and standardized jaw protrusion training (JPT) task on corticomotor excitability as assessed by motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in masseter and tongue m...