Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
A four-year longitudinal study of school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing evaluated the long-term effects of treatment.
A study using echocardiography found that patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea tend to have cardiac dysfunction. Results of the study from Taiwan show that participants with OSA have a higher incidence of cardiovascular remodeling and ventricular diastolic dysfunction, even in patients without congestive heart failure.
A study in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that 77 percent of spinal cord injury patients had symptomatic sleep-disordered breathing, and 92 percent had poor sleep quality.
A three-year, prospective, longitudinal study in the January issue of the journal Sleep examined treatment outcomes of adenotonsillectomy for children with obstructive sleep apnea.
A study in the January issue of SLEEP found that participants with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele DQB1*06:02 were 251 times more likely to have narcolepsy with cataplexy than participants without the common gene variant, which had a remarkably high negative predictive value of 99.32 percent.
A study published Jan. 9 in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a surgically implanted upper-airway stimulation device led to significant improvements in objective and subjective measurements of the severity of obstructive sleep apnea.
Earlier this week the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) approved $93.5 million to support 29 clinical research data networks.
Health education, peer support groups, and developmentally appropriate individualized support strategies may be important in promoting CPAP therapy adherence among adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea, according to a qualitative study published in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
A database review of outpatient medical records from almost 2.5 million veterans with obesity found that those with obstructive sleep apnea weremore likely to receive a diagnosis of a mood or anxiety disorder.
A new study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that middle-aged men with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) canimprove their golf score by using CPAP therapy.