OSA is a common chronic disorder that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality
including cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurocognitive disease and increased cancer …

Sleep-induced apnea and disordered breathing refers to intermittent, cyclical cessations or
reductions of airflow, with or without obstructions of the upper airway (OSA). In the presence …

Background Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea tend to coexist and are associated with
inflammation, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and high blood pressure, but their causal …

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly
in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, insomnia, and …

The importance of sleep to hormones and glucose metabolism was first documented more
than four decades ago. Since then, sleep curtailment has become an endemic behavior in …

Chronic sleep loss as a consequence of voluntary bedtime restriction is an endemic
condition in modern society. Although sleep exerts marked modulatory effects on glucose …

Emerging evidence has assigned an important role to sleep as a modulator of metabolic
homeostasis. The impact of variations in sleep duration, sleep-disordered breathing, and …

The global prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly with an exponential rise in incidence
of type 2 diabetes mellitus in recent years.'Diabesity', the term coined to show the strong …

Rationale: Sleep-disordered breathing has been linked to stroke in previous studies.
However, these studies either used surrogate markers of sleep-disordered breathing or …

Considerable evidence is available in support of an independent association between
obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) and cardiovascular disease, which is …