Obstructive sleep apnea in older adults is a distinctly different physiological phenotype

BA Edwards, A Wellman, SA Sands, RL Owens… - Sleep, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… plays a relatively greater pathogenic role in older adults, whereas a sensitive ventilatory
control system is a more prominent trait in younger adults with obstructive sleep apnea. …

Obstructive sleep apnea and the risk of cognitive decline in older adults

N Gosselin, AA Baril, RS Osorio… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
sleep on brain health is particularly important for older adults presenting obstructive sleep
apnea (… and thickening with obstructive sleep apnea in middle-aged and older adults. Am J …

Obstructive sleep apnea in older adults

D Norman, JS Loredo - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
… Studies on the effects of OSA on mortality in older adults, however, have yielded mixed or …
to sleep clinics with suspected sleep apnea, the presence of moderate to severe sleep apnea (…

Apnea in older adults

S Chowdhuri, P Patel, MS Badr - Sleep medicine clinics, 2018 - sleep.theclinics.com
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is more prevalent in older adults than in young and
middleaged adults. By 2050, 1 in 5 people will be 60 years or older prompting the World Health …

Neuropsychological changes and treatment compliance in older adults with sleep apnea

MS Aloia, N Ilniczky, P Di Dio, ML Perlis… - Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
… the following questions about sleep apnea, cognition and treatment in older adults: (1) …
of sleep fragmentation and oxygen desaturation? (2) Does compliant use of CPAP provide a …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment for sleep apnea in older adults

TE Weaver, ER Chasens - Sleep medicine reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this review is to examine efficacy of CPAP treatment in the older adult with
CPAP treatment in older sleep apnea patients. There have been few investigations of CPAP

Obstructive sleep apnea in adults

SC Veasey, IM Rosen - New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
… prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea among premenopausal women than among older
women, … mass in the tongue and worsen obstructive sleep apnea. The prevalence of obstructive …

Obstructive sleep apnea treatment and dementia risk in older adults

GL Dunietz, RD Chervin, JF Burke, AS Conceicao… - Sleep, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… We hypothesized that older adults who received and adhered to treatment for OSA (PAP
therapy) would have a lower risk of incident diagnoses of MCI, AD, or other dementia subtypes …

Clinical characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea in community‐dwelling older adults

Y Endeshaw - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… of SDB in older adults. In this study, the clinical presentation of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), …
in a convenience sample of community-dwelling older adults. It was hypothesized that the …

Sleep apnea and markers of vascular endothelial function in a large community sample of older adults

FJ Nieto, DM Herrington, S Redline… - American journal of …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
Sleep apnea measures were associated with baseline … evidence linking sleep apnea with
vascular dysfunction in older subjects… sleep apnea, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. …