CPAP therapy in patients with mild OSA: implementation and treatment outcome

L Rosenthal, R Gerhardstein, A Lumley, P Guido… - Sleep Medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
… For those patients who continued CPAP therapy beyond the first week, the overall … OSA
(ie 4.1 h/night) [3], [4], [10]. In fact, six patients with mild OSA in the present study used CPAP an …

Treating OSA: C urrent and emerging therapies beyond CPAP

G Lorenzi‐Filho, FR Almeida, PJ Strollo - Respirology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
mild forms of OSA that are less likely to benefit from CPAP than it was 20 years ago. Moreover,
even the patients with severe OSA who qualify for CPAP … The rate of CPAP adherence …

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: a preliminary report comparing nasal CPAP to nasal oxygen in patients with mild OSA

BA Phillips, FA Schmitt, DTR Berry, DG Lamb, M Amin… - Chest, 1990 - Elsevier
mild obstructive sleep apnea are least likely to tolerate nasal CPAP, and because nasal
CPAP is well established as first line treatment for severe obstructive sleep apnea, we undertook …

Mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome should not be treated

MR Littner - Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2007 - jcsm.aasm.org
… (recommendations) on the use of CPAP in the treatment of OSA. The recommendation for
mild OSA was as follows2: “CPAP is recommended for the treatment of mild OSA (Option). This …

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
CPAP treatment was recommended to patients with moderate or severe OSA and to patients
with mild OSA … to patients who refused CPAP or to those with mild OSA without severe …

A randomized controlled trial of continuous positive airway pressure in mild obstructive sleep apnea

M Barnes, D Houston, CJ Worsnop… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
… (CPAP) treatment in mild OSA we undertook a randomized controlled cross-over trial of CPAP
in patients with an apnea– … , after 8 wk of treatment with CPAP, and after 8 wk of treatment …

Mild obstructive sleep apnoea: clinical relevance and approaches to management

WT McNicholas, MR Bonsignore, P Lévy… - The Lancet Respiratory …, 2016 - thelancet.com
… Treatment options in mild obstructive sleep apnoea include continuous positive airway
pressure (CPAP) and oral appliance therapy, in addition to positional therapy and weight …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment of sleepy patients with milder obstructive sleep apnea: results of the CPAP Apnea Trial North American Program …

TE Weaver, C Mancini, G Maislin, J Cater… - American journal of …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
… value in treating sleepy patients with mild to moderate disease. … , CPAP is the primary
treatment for OSA. Our results demonstrate that CPAP therapy for sleepy patients with milder OSA

Effects of medical therapy on mild obstructive sleep apnea in adult patients

DF Smith, KM Sarber, CP Spiceland… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - jcsm.aasm.org
Mild OSA (defined as an apnea-hypopnea index [AHI] ≥ 5 to < 15 events/h with … modalities
have been studied for mild OSA. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the gold …

An official American Thoracic Society research statement: impact of mild obstructive sleep apnea in adults

S Chowdhuri, SF Quan, F Almeida… - American journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
… In summary, most randomized controlled studies with CPAP demonstrate that treatment of
mild OSA improves subjective assessments of daytime sleepiness by a small amount but that …