Obstructive sleep apnea in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: looking beyond their complaintSleep and Breathing -doi:10.1007/s11325-018-1706-7Ghadami Mohammad RasoulKhazaie HabibolahMasoudi MaryamSleep And Breathing
This retrospective observational study was conducted in the Center of Sleep Medicine in Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, the first sleep Lab was founded in Taiwan in 198321, where all the polysomnography (PSG) studies were performed by the Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine (TSSM)...
Taylor SS, Hughes JM, Coffman CJ, Jeffreys AS, Ulmer CS, Oddone EZ, Bosworth HB, Yancy WS Jr., Allen KD (2018) Prevalence of and characteristics associated with insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea among veterans with knee and hip osteoarthritis. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 19:79. https://doi...
Veterans with overseas wartime service and TEs show increased rates of cardiometabolic disorders, including heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Additionally, 24% of Veterans have been diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), which is epidemiologically linked to ...
Our aim was to evaluate the healthcare utilization and the conditions associated with new and chronic diagnosis of OSA in a large cohort of elderly patients in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cohort study used inpatient and outpatient VHA data ...
20 The questionnaire has demonstrated a high sensitivity using a cutoff score of ≥ 3: 84% in detecting any sleep apnea (AHI > 5 events/h), 93% in detecting moderate to severe sleep apnea (AHI > 15 events/h), and 100% in detecting severe sleep apnea (AHI > 30 events/h).20 ...
Regarding a possible age effect, older veterans with OSA report lower ISI scores [17]. Our targeted statistical analysis showed no significant age effect on the observed ESS scores in the pooled results of the entire cohort (Table 1). Nonetheless, after performing a separate Spearman's correlati...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent disease, and is traditionally associated with increased cardiovascular risk. The role of comorbidities in OSA patients has emerged recently, and new conditions significantly associated with OSA are incr
This systematic review to support the 2022 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on screening for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in
Subjects were evaluated with sleep studies, comprehensive sleep questionnaires, and detailed electronic medical record reviews to document their medical comorbidities, and demographic and laboratory information. Results 1604 consecutive veterans (age 57.6 ± 13.4 years, 92% male) were included in the ...