Predictors of the efficacy for daytime sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea with continual positive airway pressure therapy: a meta-analysis of …

Z Li, S Cai, J Wang, R Chen - Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… age, obesity, adherence, duration of CPAP therapy, and OSA … concluded that BMI does affect
the efficacy of CPAP therapy (… for CPAP compliance be stratified according to OSA severity

Medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

PA Cistulli, RR Grunstein - Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… exact influence of OSA in the relationship between obesity … This index is used to categorize
severity, such that mild OSA is … trials comparing autotitrating CPAP with fixed-pressure CPAP

[HTML][HTML] Canadian Thoracic Society 2011 guideline update: diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing

J Fleetham, N Ayas, D Bradley… - … journal: journal of the …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
obesity and OSAS, and the documented benefits of weight loss on sleep apnea severity, it is
… surgical impact on sleep apnea severity suggests that the average AHI postbariatric surgery …

[HTML][HTML] CPAP in the perioperative setting: evidence of support

F Chung, M Nagappa, M Singh, B Mokhlesi - Chest, 2016 - Elsevier
… , the prevalence of moderate to severe OSA was 23.4% in women … With the global rise of
obesity, the prevalence of OSA will … with autotitrating positive airway pressure (APAP) can be as …

Residual daytime sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnea after continuous positive airway pressure optimization: causes and management

JL Chapman, Y Serinel, NS Marshall… - Sleep medicine …, 2016 - sleep.theclinics.com
… , in that patients may wish to provide answers they think they are expected to give. The …
because a CPAP machine cannot tell whether a patient was asleep or lying awake with the …

Metrics of sleep apnea severity: beyond the apnea-hypopnea index

A Malhotra, I Ayappa, N Ayas, N Collop, D Kirsch… - Sleep, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is thought to affect almost 1 … conditions such as obesity,
among others. These differences in … It is unclear whether this reflects an increase in competing …

Factors contributing to unintentional leak during CPAP treatment: a systematic review

M Lebret, JB Martinot, N Arnol, D Zerillo, R Tamisier… - Chest, 2017 - Elsevier
CPAP is the first-line treatment for moderate to severe OSA … (1) to assess the impact of
different technological features on … Obesity is considered a major risk factor for the development …

The influence of end-expiratory lung volume on measurements of pharyngeal collapsibility

RL Owens, A Malhotra, DJ Eckert… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
… While some of the OSA subjects in this study participated in … with obesity, we did not find
any association between BMI (or … in their supine, paralyzed obese subjects, a change thought …

Potential mechanisms connecting asthma, esophageal reflux, and obesity/sleep apnea complex—a hypothetical review

A Kasasbeh, E Kasasbeh, G Krishnaswamy - Sleep medicine reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
… with either condition singly. Clinicians should be aware that … in severe asthma and OSA)
may have an adverse impact on … Autotitrating positive airway pressure (APAP) devices are …

Oronasal masks require a higher pressure than nasal and nasal pillow masks for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

S Deshpande, S Joosten, A Turton… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - jcsm.aasm.org
… from either OSA severity or patient body mass index (BMI). … small influence of age, AHI,
and obesity (as determined by BMI… There was no difference in autotitrating CPAP-determined …