Sleep Disorders
Feb 10, 2020
Nutritional impairment is common in cancer patients and adversely affects quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between nutritional status and QoL in incurabl...
Feb 10, 2020
Fibrinogen is believed to play a role in the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and many studies have assessed circulating fibrinogen concentrations in OSA patients. However, the results...
Feb 10, 2020
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) causes sleep disturbance and daytime symptoms in children with neuromuscular disorders. Although polysomnography (PSG) findings are well described in many neuromuscula...
Feb 10, 2020
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children is common. Interest in sleep tests, such as polygraphy (PG), which can be performed in a non-attended setting, are gaining is increasing. PG has, however, ...
Feb 10, 2020
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very common disorder with important day and nighttime symptoms and long-term effects on health. Different treatment modalities such as positive airway pressure (PAP)...
Feb 10, 2020
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is independently associated with increased risk for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Since activated platelets play an important role in cardiovascular disease, ...
Feb 04, 2020
5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is the precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin and has been used for the treatment of various diseases such as depression, insomnia, chronic headaches, and binge eating...
Feb 04, 2020
Sleep quality was considered a priority concern facing pregnant women. Conventional wisdom argues that good sleep quality benefits pregnant women and their fetuses. The aim of this study is to assess ...
Feb 04, 2020
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a non-invasive technology based on image processing for the identification of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its severity at patients' home.Observational, pro...
Jan 31, 2020
Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic and disabling sleep disorder due to the loss of hypocretinergic neurons in the lateral hypothalamus pathophysiologically linked to an autoimmune process. Current t...
Jan 31, 2020
Pitolisant (Wakix), an orally available, first-in-class antagonist/inverse agonist of the histamine 3 receptor, is approved in the EU (as of March 2016) for the treatment of narcolepsy with or without...
Jan 31, 2020
Insomnia symptoms have been linked to problematic marijuana use among young adults, but the mechanism underlying this association and whether sex differences exist, remains unclear. Using cross-sectio...
Jan 31, 2020
With the increasing emphasis on economic evaluations, there is a need for additional methods of measuring patient utility in the obstructive sleep apnea population.To develop and validate a utility sc...
Jan 31, 2020
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a risk factor for motor vehicle crashes (MVC), and patients with diagnosed OSA have a higher likelihood of being involved in a traffic accident. OSA, however, is ofte...
Jan 31, 2020
The minimum narcolepsy criteria "mean sleep latency (MSL) ≤8 min and ≥2 sleep onset rapid eye movement (REM) periods (SOREMPs) on polysomnography (PSG) and the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT),...
Jan 31, 2020
We aimed to assess sexual function, sexual distress and the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) among women with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA), and to assess if the presence of OSA ...
Jan 31, 2020
With improved survivorship rates for colorectal cancer (CRC), more CRC survivors are living with long-term disease and treatment side effects. Little research exists on CRC symptoms or symptom managem...
Jan 30, 2020
Formation and maintenance of fear-extinction memories are disrupted in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders. Sleep contributes to emotional memory consolidation and emotion regu...
Jan 30, 2020
To define clinically relevant Narcolepsy Severity Scale (NSS) score ranges, confirm its main performances and sensitivity to medications, and determine whether items need to be weighted.143 consecutiv...
Jan 30, 2020
Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a neurological sleep disorder, which is believed to arise from the autoimmune destruction of hypocretin-producing neurons. The purinergic receptor P2Y is associated with n...