(43). Abbreviation as in Figure 1. Sympathetic activity Previous evidence showed that variations in sympathetic tone in obese patients are largely explained by their OSA status. In 1998, Narkiewicz et al. (45) reported provocative data on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in healthy normal-weight...
Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Acronyms,Encyclopedia. Related to Obstructive Sleep Apnea:central sleep apnea,Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome OSA abbr. Order of Saint Augustine American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishi...
Growing awareness of sleep apnea has extended the already long waiting lists in many sleep laboratories.11 As a result, patients with OSA are currently left waiting a mean of 11.6 months before being able to initiate medical therapy (CPAP) and 16.2 months before being able to initiate surgical...
Abbreviation: SpO2, oxygen saturation. of COPD in the United States and has significant impact on sleep. Also, many patients with COPD continue to smoke cigarettes despite the health consequences that are already realized. Ongoing cigarette smoke exposure is associated with both upper and lower ...
For abbreviation see legend to figure 4. Note that "post surgery" T<90% and 0 -80- I are at 0 and do not appear on the figure. ~ : 1 pre-surgery (mean); f:::M!d : post-surgery (mean). Complications of the procedure. The potential compli- cations (i.e. nasal reflux, trans...
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common sleep-related breathing disorder where precise treatment assessment is of high importance. We aimed to validate an automatic algorithm of the auto-CPAP device and reveal polygraph usefulness in the OSAS