News tagged with breathing disorders
Adenotonsillectomy may offer long-term benefits for children with breathing problems during sleep
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Two and a half years after children with sleep-related breathing disorders had surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids (glands in the back of the throat), they appear to sleep better than they did before the procedure ...
Breathing problems during sleep associated with calories burned at rest
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders appear to burn more calories when resting as their conditions become more severe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Su ...
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Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...
Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...
Older men with breathing problems during sleep more likely to have irregular heartbeats
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Increasingly severe sleep-related breathing disorders in older men appear to be associated with a greater risk of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), according to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
Sleep disorders are largely underdiagnosed in pediatric patients
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Primary care pediatricians may be under-diagnosing sleep disorders in children and teens, according to new research.
Sleep disorders can impair children's IQs as much as lead exposure
Mar 13, 2007 |
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Three decades ago, medical investigators began sounding the alarm about how lead exposure causes IQ deficits in children. Today, researchers at the University of Virginia Health System say children with sleep disorders can ...
COPD-related problems hard to swallow
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibit a disordered breathing-swallowing pattern that may account for their higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, according to new research from ...
Retired national football league linemen have high incidence of sleep apnea
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Sleep disordered breathing, also known as sleep apnea, is highly prevalent among retired National Football League (NFL) players, and particularly in linemen, according to Mayo Clinic research. This study, involving 167 players, ...
What a sleep study can reveal about fibromyalgia
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work ...
Primary snoring in children impacts cardiovascular functioning
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Primary snoring in children may have an impact on cardiovascular functioning equivalent to that of moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday at SLEEP 2008, the ...
Study sheds light on brain's fear processing center
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Breathing carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks, but the biological reason for this effect has not been understood. A new study by University of Iowa researchers shows that carbon dioxide increases brain acidity, which ...
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