Diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnea: a review

DJ Gottlieb, NM Punjabi - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects 17% of women and 34% of men in the US
and has a similar prevalence in other countries. This review provides an update on the …

Metrics of sleep apnea severity: beyond the apnea-hypopnea index

A Malhotra, I Ayappa, N Ayas, N Collop, D Kirsch… - Sleep, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is thought to affect almost 1 billion people worldwide. OSA
has well established cardiovascular and neurocognitive sequelae, although the optimal …

Sleep apnea–specific hypoxic burden, symptom subtypes, and risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality

W Trzepizur, M Blanchard, T Ganem… - American journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Data from population-based cohorts suggest that symptom subtypes and
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)–specific hypoxic burden (HB) could help to better identify …

Obstructive sleep apnoea heterogeneity and cardiovascular disease

S Redline, A Azarbarzin, Y Peker - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2023 - nature.com
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), characterized by recurrent periods of upper airway
obstruction and intermittent hypoxaemia, is prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease …

Understanding and approaching excessive daytime sleepiness

L Pérez-Carbonell, E Mignot, G Leschziner… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a public health issue. However, it remains largely
undervalued, scarcely diagnosed, and poorly supported. Variations in the definition of EDS …

Multinight prevalence, variability, and diagnostic misclassification of obstructive sleep apnea

B Lechat, G Naik, A Reynolds, A Aishah… - American journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Recent studies suggest that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity can vary
markedly from night to night, which may have important implications for diagnosis and …

Global burden of sleep‐disordered breathing and its implications

MM Lyons, NY Bhatt, AI Pack, UJ Magalang - Respirology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
One‐seventh of the world's adult population, or approximately one billion people, are
estimated to have OSA. Over the past four decades, obesity, the main risk factor for OSA, has …

Comorbid insomnia and sleep apnoea is associated with all-cause mortality

B Lechat, S Appleton, YA Melaku… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background Increased mortality has been reported in people with insomnia and in those
with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). However, these conditions commonly co-occur and …

The sleep apnea–specific pulse-rate response predicts cardiovascular morbidity and mortality

A Azarbarzin, SA Sands, M Younes… - American journal of …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Randomized controlled trials have been unable to detect a cardiovascular benefit
of continuous positive airway pressure in unselected patients with obstructive sleep apnea …

Hypoxia-inducible factors and obstructive sleep apnea

NR Prabhakar, YJ Peng… - The Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Intermittent hypoxia (IH) is a hallmark manifestation of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a
widespread disorder of breathing. This Review focuses on the role of hypoxia-inducible …