Increased nocturnal arterial pulsation frequencies of obstructive sleep apnoea patients is associated with an increased number of lapses in a psychomotor vigilance task - Kainulainen S, Duce B, Korkalainen H, Leino A, Huttunen R, Kalevo L, Arnardottir ES, Kulkas A, Myllymaa S, T öyräs J, Leppänen T.

OBJECTIVES: Besides hypoxaemia severity, heart rate variability has been linked to cognitive decline in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients. Thus, our aim was to examine whether the frequency domain features of a nocturnal photoplethysmogram (PPG) c...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news