Tetraplegic obstructive sleep apnoea patients dilate the airway similarly to able-bodied obstructive sleep apnoea patients.

Conclusion: Despite the limited sample size, these data suggest that SCI OSA patients have heterogeneous pharyngeal dilator muscle responses to the negative pressures occurring during inspiration but, as a group, appear to be more similar to able-bodied OSA patients than healthy controls of similar age and BMI. This may reflect altered pharyngeal pressure reflex responses in at least some people with SCI. PMID: 33166204 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research