Obstructive sleep apnea is when something blocks part or all of your upper airway while you sleep. So, your diaphragm, a muscle that helps you breathe in and out, and chest muscles have to work harder to open your airway and pull air into yourlungs. Your breath can become very shallow, ...
Children with more severe obstructive sleep apnea showed greater absolute improvement in many of the secondary outcomes, but many of these children still had abnormal sleep studies at follow-up testing. Marcus and colleagues concluded that surgical treatment for OSAS did not meet their prespecified ...
Sleep apnea is a condition where breathing ceases and restarts repeatedly during sleep. Apnea is where breathing stops temporarily. Sometimes in sleep apnea the air inflow is severely decreased but does not stop altogether and this is known as sleep hypopnea. There are three types of sleep apnea ...
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) encompasses a spectrum of disorders with implications in many fields of medicine. In its most recognizable and ubiquitous form, SDB is represented by snoring.
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