… It has been routinely used for about 10 years in our sleep laboratory for sleep apnea
screening and provides reliable results in reference to complete polysomnography.Apnea was …

… found that obstructive sleep apnea is very common in patients with TIA and stroke, is more
… and those with strokes of unknown etiology, and is less common in patients with strokes of …

… Stroke and Prevalence of OSA The reported prevalence of sleep apnea after stroke varies
… Mohsenin and Valor 10 conducted polysomnograms in 10 patients with ischemic stroke and …

… stroke patients is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (Fig. [1]). In the first few days after stroke,
however, central sleep apnea (… most common forms of SDB in stroke victims, OSA and Cheyne-…

… Futhermore, research in the area of improving compliance in this specific patient population
is needed, as stroke victims can have impairments that significantly affect their ability to …

… Prevalence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea in patients with stroke and TIA, and …
snoring, TIA and stroke victims appear to be reliable in providing a sleep history. Rather, the …

… After exclusion of all stroke victims with presumed cardiac origin (n = 21), … stroke and OSA
have elevated fibrinogen levels, which correlate positively with indices of sleep apnea severity. …

… Our study showed a high prevalence of OSA among stroke victims (55%), which is
consistent with the abundant data in the literature [8, 9]. More importantly, it demonstrated the …

… The key search terms used were obstructive sleep apnea, sleep-disordered breathing, and
stroke risk. A synthesis of the evidence was undertaken on research articles that were related …

… These findings have, to our best knowledge, never been reported before in stroke victims.
Turkington et al 24 found an increased BP variability (expressed as 10 and 15 mm Hg dips in …