Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — There is a need to identify patients with obstructive sleep apnea after a weight-loss ...
rate of unmanaged disease that presents the risk to ASCs. Stephanie Wasek: We all hear about the impact of overweight and obese patients on the population and healthcare system; obstructive sleep ...
Credit: Getty Images Early recognition and management of obstructive sleep apnea are critical to preventing cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic complications in older adults. Screening for OSA ...
New research in eClinicalMedicine reveals that nearly half of people with obstructive sleep apnea are not obese, challenging long-held assumptions and calling for more inclusive screening strategies.
The Patient Safety Authority in Harrisburg, Pa., offers a free, downloadable obstructive sleep apnea preoperative screening tool. PSA says the tool, a sample questionnaire, is not meant to substitute ...
Maybe you know you snore like a bear, but you don’t feel much urgency to look into it. Or maybe you have been told to wear a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine for sleep apnea, but ...
OSA is linked to a higher risk of Parkinson's disease, with a modest increase in incidence among veterans with OSA. The association between OSA and Parkinson's is more pronounced in female veterans, ...