Sleep apnea can occur at any age, but being a male and getting older both put you at increased risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea, says Dr. Kaplish.

Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...

Rising temperatures, amplified by climate change, are contributing to an increase in cases of sleep apnea, a condition in ...

Individuals with vs without knee, hip, or hand OA were associated with a significantly increased risk for sleep apnea.

The traditional polysomnography (PSG) examination for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) diagnosis needs to measure several signals, such as EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG and the oxygen level in blood, of a patient ...

Sleep is extremely important, so what happens when your breathing stops and restarts mid-sleep many times a night? It's ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is more than just a snore—it’s a serious sleep disorder that affects millions of people ...

And the severe cases — when people stop breathing more than 30 times in a single hour — go up, too. "You also increase the ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common, potentially life-threatening condition. An estimated 80%-90% of Americans with OSA have not been diagnosed (Kapur, Strohl, & Redline, 2002).

Sleep apnea — a disorder in which one’s breathing is interrupted for seconds or minutes at a time during sleep — affects people of all ages, genders and body types, according to Dr. Indira ...

Abstract The clinical syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) in children is a distinct, yet somewhat overlapping disorder with the condition that occurs in adults, such that the clinical ...