Sleep Disorders

Impact of positive airway pressure therapy on intraocular pressure in obstructive sleep apnea: A systematic review.

May 01, 2024

Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy has been reported to have variable effect on intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) . The objective of this review is to prese...

Identification of an Unmet Medical Need: Height of Depression, Hypersomnia, and Sleep Apnea Positively Correlate With the Level of Fatigue in Patients With Immune Thrombocytopenia.

Nov 15, 2023

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare chronic disease, frequently accompanied by fatigue, which is an important comorbidity associated with this disease. Patients experience difficulties in managing...

[Sleep disorders and fatigue in patients with different forms of myotonic dystrophy type 1].

Sep 01, 2023

To characterize sleep disorders in children and adults with different forms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), to assess their impact on cognitive functions, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and fa...

Correlation between dental arch form and OSA severity in adult patients: an observational study.

May 29, 2023

The role of interdental widths and palatal morphology on the development of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has not been well investigated in adult patients yet. The aim of this paper was to assess the ...

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with a simple CPAP device.

May 22, 2023

CPAP is the "gold standard" treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Current CPAP models have developed additional functions including automatic CPAP and pressure relief. However, CPAP adherence h...

Hyperarousal in insomnia disorder: Current evidence and potential mechanisms.

May 15, 2023

Insomnia disorder is among the most frequent mental disorders, making research on its aetiology and pathophysiology particularly important. A unifying element of many aetiological and pathophysiologic...

Prevalence and determinants of post-stroke sleep disorders: a cross-sectional hospital-based study.

May 15, 2023

Post-stroke sleep disorders (PSSD) are an important part of post-stroke disability. PSSD is neglected as a part of stroke rehabilitation. We aimed to study the prevalence and determinants of PSSD in a...

Spinal Cord Stimulation Eases Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

May 08, 2023

Spinal cord stimulation provides durable pain relief for diabetic neuropathy with an acceptable safety profile and sustained results through 24 months. About a quarter of all patients with diab...

[Influencing factors of mild cognitive impairment among the Chinese elderly: a meta-analysis].

May 08, 2023

To conduct a meta-analysis on the influencing factors of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the Chinese elderly. The literature related to the influencing factors of MCI in Chinese elderly populatio...

Effectiveness and safety of (adeno) tonsillectomy for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea in different age groups: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

May 01, 2023

This meta-analysis aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of (adeno)tonsillectomy (AT) for uncomplicated pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) across different age groups. Four electronic data...

Causal feature selection using a knowledge graph combining structured knowledge from the biomedical literature and ontologies: a use case studying depression as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

Apr 24, 2023

Causal feature selection is essential for estimating effects from observational data. Identifying confounders is a crucial step in this process. Traditionally, researchers employ content-matter expert...

Cross-Lagged Analyses of Prolonged Grief and Depression Symptoms With Insomnia Symptoms.

Apr 24, 2023

Prolonged grief disorder, characterized by severe, persistent and disabling grief, has recently been added to the DSM-5-TR and ICD-11. Treatment for prolonged grief symptoms shows limited effectivenes...

Insomnia trajectories predict chronic inflammation over 2 years at the transition to adulthood.

Apr 17, 2023

Insomnia in adolescents is an important public health concern, as its impacts on both their current and future physical and mental health has been discussed. However, few longitudinal studies have exa...

The Role of Leptin in Rodent and Human Sleep: A Transdiagnostic Approach with a Particular Focus on Anorexia Nervosa.

Apr 10, 2023

This narrative review addressed to both clinicians and researchers aims to assess the role of hypoleptinemia in disordered sleep with a particular focus on patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). After i...

[The sleep condition and its association with cognitive function of the elderly in six provinces of China].

Apr 10, 2023

To analyze the association between sleep duration and cognitive function of the elderly in six provinces of China. Based on the cross-sectional survey data of the elderly from the Healthy Ageing Ass...

Comparing the diagnostic value of the positional obstructive sleep apnea definitions.

Apr 03, 2023

Several definitions were proposed to diagnose Positional Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pOSA). However, the comparison between these definitions according to their diagnostic value is scarce in the literatu...

Safety and tolerance of combination of monoamine oxidase inhibitors and direct dopamine agonists in adults and older adults with highly resistant depression.

Apr 03, 2023

Dopamine (DA) is likely to be involved in some depressive dimensions, such as anhedonia and amotivation, which account for a part of treatment-resistant forms. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) and ...

The Effects of the Newest Palatopharyngeal Surgery (Barbed Pharyngoplasty) on Voice Quality.

Mar 27, 2023

This study aimed to examine the effects of barbed pharyngoplasty (BP) on voice quality in patients with Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and to compare them with the anterior palatoplasty (AP) ...

Evaluation of anticholinergic burden in elderly outpatients and the risk factors.

Mar 20, 2023

The use of anticholinergic drugs in the elderly may lead to negative events such as falls, delirium, urinary retention and cognitive decline, and the higher the number of anticholinergic drugs use, th...

Evaluation of sleep and therapeutic education needs of military with PTSD.

Mar 13, 2023

Sleep disorders in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are both diagnostic (nocturnal reliving) and prognostic. Poor sleep worsens the daytime symptomatology of PTSD and makes it resistant to treatm...