One‐seventh of the world's adult population, or approximately one billion people, are
estimated to have OSA. Over the past four decades, obesity, the main risk factor for OSA, has …

Sleep medicine is a relatively new specialty in the medical community. The practice of sleep
medicine in Saudi Arabia (KSA) began in the mid to late nineties. Since its inception, the …

Sleep disorders are prevalent in the Saudi population, and the demand for sleep medicine
services is expected to increase significantly. The prevalence of various sleep disorders in …

The practice of sleep medicine in Saudi Arabia began in the mid to late 1990s. Since its
establishment, this specialty has grown, and the number of specialists has increased. Based …

Objective: To assess quantitatively sleep medicine services in Saudi Arabia (KSA) and
identify obstacles that face specialists and hospitals and preclude the establishment of this …

BACKGROUND: We conducted this national survey to quantitatively assess sleep medicine
services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and to identify obstacles that specialists and …

METHODS An attended overnight sleep study was carried out on an OSAHS patient, using
digital PSG (Alice 4: Respironics, Marietta, GA, USA). The patient was a 38-year-old male …

The commercial availability of psychotropic drugs has an important effect on the
consumption of medications for the symptomatic treatment of insomnia. Traditional …

In contrast to the fruitful achievements of sleep research, sleep medicine has never been
properly defined and recognized in Japan. Therefore, it is difficult for any clinician to have a …

In order to assess the usefulness of the SleepStrip (SS) in screening for obstructive sleep
apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in Japanese settings, we measured its sensitivity and …