A new study from the University of Bergen in Norway, aimed to find out if people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience more unusual sleep behaviors (parasomnias) than those without OSA. What Was the Study About? Researchers looked at 4,372 patients who were sent to a Norwegian hospital because their doctors thought they might have…
Poorly managed sleep apnea can lead to uncontrolled high blood pressure, and those most at risk have wide-ranging variability in their night-to-night OSA severity. This can be overlooked or misdiagnosed during standard clinical testing, a study from Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia warns. Standard OSA testing generally is done over a single night in a sleep lab. Given the reported…
Highlights: According to a University of Buffalo peer-reviewed study, during the last two decades, more Black men have died from obstructive sleep apnea than White persons or Black females. They are the only group whose death rate from sleep apnea has continued to climb over the last two decades. For the first time, the study…
Apnimed believes there is a market for a new pharmaceutical therapeutic option for OSA, which affects 25 million Americans. Muscles that normally maintain the upper airway open collapse periodically during sleep in these people, resulting in occasional low oxygen levels and long-term morbidity. Although continuous positive air pressure can be useful, many patients do not…
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