Can intensive support improve continuous positive airway pressure use in patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome?

CJ Hoy, M Vennelle, RN Kingshott… - American Journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
… Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is widely prescribed for patients
with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS), but the use of CPAP for such patients is …

The use of auto-titrating continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnea

RB Berry, JM Parish, KM Hartse - Sleep, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… continuous positive airway pressure (APAP) for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. It is …
appointed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine to develop practice parameters for …

Continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnea

RC Basner - New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
… ; CPAP continuous positive airway pressure (in centimeters of water); airflow inspiratory
airflow in the upper airway; thorax … CPAP maintains a generally constant pressure in the upper …

Treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnea with positive airway pressure: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE …

SP Patil, IA Ayappa, SM Caples, RJ Kimoff… - … of Clinical Sleep …, 2019 - jcsm.aasm.org
… systematic review is to provide supporting evidence for the clinical practice guideline for
the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adults using positive airway pressure (PAP). …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment rapidly improves insulin sensitivity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

IA Harsch, SP Schahin… - American journal of …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
… We investigated whether obstructive sleep apneaairway pressure (CPAP) treatment
improves insulin sensitivity. Forty patients (apnea–hypopnea index > 20) were treated with CPAP. …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment improves pulmonary hemodynamics in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

D Sajkov, T Wang, NA Saunders, AJ Bune… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
… continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) … pressure (Ppa) with treatment (2), others
showed no change (12, 13). These earlier studies included patients with very mild sleep apnea

Sleep apnea, hypertension, and the effects of continuous positive airway pressure

S Dhillon, SA Chung, T Fargher… - American journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
… with sleep apnea and who went on to CPAP treatment were included in this study. Information
from two sets of overnight sleep … before the diagnosis of sleep apnea, and the second was …

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: more insights on structural and functional cardiac alterations, and the effects of treatment with continuous positive airway pressure

B Shivalkar, C Van De Heyning, M Kerremans… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - jacc.org
airway pressure treatment. (B)Left ventricular stroke volume before and six months after
continuous positive airway pressure … months after continuous positive airway pressure treatment. …

Effect of nocturnal nasal continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure in obstructive sleep apnea

LA Bazzano, Z Khan, K Reynolds, J He - Hypertension, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
sleep apnea (OSA) is a very common risk factor for hypertension, and continuous positive
airway pressure (CPAP… to evaluate the effects of CPAP on blood pressure, reported as either a …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment of mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea reduces cardiovascular risk

NJ Buchner, BM Sanner, J Borgel… - American journal of …, 2007 - atsjournals.org
… a benefit of continuous positive airway pressure treatment on … patients with untreated
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have … been reported in patients suffering from sleep apnea (1–3), …