Feb 13, 2020

French general practitioners (GPs) are known to widely prescribe medications to treat insomnia despite their negative effects. GPs' easy access to self-medication may affect their mental representatio...

Feb 13, 2020

To determine the patterns of concomitant drug use for chronic diseases and examine the risk factors of polypharmacy in older outpatients.Data were extracted from an anonymized health insurance claims ...

Feb 13, 2020

Tracheal intubation is a vital and common procedure during surgical care. The tracheal tube may be inserted orally or trans-nasally. Nasal intubation enables a non-restricted approach for oral and oro...

Feb 13, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients show multiple physiological deficits and several neuropsychological comorbidities. The aim of this study was to investigate the eating attitudes in OS...

Feb 13, 2020

Tibetan is a major ethnic group living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Due to their high-altitude hypoxia environment, sleeping disorder and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) ar...

Feb 13, 2020

Maxillomandibular advancement is an effective surgical option for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that achieves enlargement of the upper airway by physically expanding the facial skeleton. The authors s...

Feb 10, 2020

Gaming has increasingly become a part of life in Africa. Currently, no data on gaming disorders or their association with mental disorders exist for African countries. This study for the first time in...

Feb 10, 2020

Several upper extremity disorders are associated with sleep disturbance in patient populations. This study evaluated the relation between self-assessment of upper extremity function and sleep disturba...

Feb 10, 2020

Postoperative delirium (POD) is a major risk factor for an extended hospital stay and higher costs, and is associated with increased mortality. The incidence of POD is high in free flap procedures, an...

Feb 10, 2020

Narcolepsy is a chronic, debilitating neurological disorder of sleep-wake state instability. This instability underlies all narcolepsy symptoms, including excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), symptoms ...

Feb 10, 2020

Nutritional impairment is common in cancer patients and adversely affects quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between nutritional status and QoL in incurabl...

Feb 10, 2020

Fibrinogen is believed to play a role in the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and many studies have assessed circulating fibrinogen concentrations in OSA patients. However, the results...

Feb 10, 2020

Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) causes sleep disturbance and daytime symptoms in children with neuromuscular disorders. Although polysomnography (PSG) findings are well described in many neuromuscula...

Feb 10, 2020

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children is common. Interest in sleep tests, such as polygraphy (PG), which can be performed in a non-attended setting, are gaining is increasing. PG has, however, ...

Feb 10, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very common disorder with important day and nighttime symptoms and long-term effects on health. Different treatment modalities such as positive airway pressure (PAP)...

Feb 10, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is independently associated with increased risk for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Since activated platelets play an important role in cardiovascular disease, ...

Feb 04, 2020

5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is the precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin and has been used for the treatment of various diseases such as depression, insomnia, chronic headaches, and binge eating...

Feb 04, 2020

Sleep quality was considered a priority concern facing pregnant women. Conventional wisdom argues that good sleep quality benefits pregnant women and their fetuses. The aim of this study is to assess ...

Feb 04, 2020

To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a non-invasive technology based on image processing for the identification of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its severity at patients' home.Observational, pro...

Jan 31, 2020

Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic and disabling sleep disorder due to the loss of hypocretinergic neurons in the lateral hypothalamus pathophysiologically linked to an autoimmune process. Current t...