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Risk of gallstones in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a nationwide observational cohort study.
CONCLUSION: The study shows a strong association between OSA and gallstones. Moreover, our findings suggest the requirement for survey and health education for gallstones in OSA and further studies to verify whether the treatment of OSA can reduce the risk of gallstones. PMID: 29980983 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - July 7, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Chen CH, Lin CL, Hsu CY, Kao CH Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research

30 Days to Better Sleep: Snoring and Sleepiness Equals Sleep Apnea
In reviewing the articles in this blog series, you may have become convinced that the only thing that affects sleep is not sleeping as part of insomnia. However, there are many other sleep disorders that can contribute to difficulty sleeping and waking refreshed. One of the major contributors to excessive sleepiness during the day is trouble breathing at night, best characterized by sleep apnea. Sleep apnea occurs when the upper airway collapses during sleep. Tissues in the airway, from the nose past the soft palate to the base of the tongue, may obstruct the flow of air. When this occurs, this obstruction may be partial ...
Source: About Sleep Disorders - January 23, 2013 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news

Alcohol-mediated sleep paralysis: The earliest known description
Sleep paralysis is defined as rapid eye movement parasomnia and a period of the inability to perform voluntary movements at sleep onset or upon awakening. Sleep paralysis may occur as isolated or familial forms, or as one of the classic tetrad of narcolepsy symptoms . A few factors are believed to predispose individuals to sleep paralysis including irregular sleep habits, sleep deprivation, and other disturbances of the sleep-wake rhythm, mental stress, overtiredness, and sleeping in the supine position. Comparable to the sleep paralysis, the term “Kabus” has been frequently used by the medieval Persian physicians. The...
Source: Sleep Medicine - November 5, 2012 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Samad E.J. Golzari, Kamyar Ghabili Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research

Association between insomnia and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Han Chinese individuals in Shandong Province, China.
CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that insomnia is independently and significantly associated with diabetes mellitus in the northern Chinese population, especially in the 40-59-year-old age group and in males. PMID: 29961182 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - June 30, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Zhang Y, Lin Y, Zhang J, Li L, Liu X, Wang T, Gao Z Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research

Demographic, clinical, and biomarker predictors of apnea-hypopnea index from polysomnography in Midwestern sleep clinic patients.
CONCLUSIONS: BMI and systolic BP were significant predictors of OSA in this study. The absence of lung disease as a significant predictor was unique and may be due to the small number of participants who self-reported lung disease. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report this combination of variables to predict AHI levels ≥ 15 from PSG. PMID: 32193844 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - March 18, 2020 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Miller JN, Berger AM, Kupzyk KA Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research

Sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder in adults - A systematic review with a case report
J Sleep Res. 2023 Jul 6:e13985. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13985. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSleep-related rhythmic movement disorder is characterised by stereotyped and repetitive rhythmic movements involving large muscle groups during sleep with frequencies between 0.5 and 2 Hz. Most of the published studies on sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder have focussed on children. Therefore, we performed a systematic review on this topic focussing on the adult population. The review is followed by a case report. The review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 2020 ...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - July 6, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Monika Michalek-Zrabkowska Mieszko Wieckiewicz Adam Wichniak Andrej Jenca Janka Jencova Weronika Frosztega Tomasz Wieczorek Justyna Chojdak-Lukasiewicz Monika Sluzewska-Niedzwiedz Anna Wojakowska Rafal Poreba Grzegorz Mazur Helena Martynowicz Source Type: research