Frequent night awakenings and urination may be due to obstructive sleep apnea, not enlarged prostate.
By: Dr. Victor Marchione | Bladder | Wednesday, August 17, 2016 – 12:00 PM Frequent night awakenings and urination may be caused by obstructive sleep apnea, rather than enlarged prostate. The study compared men aged 55 and 75 years old with an enlarged prostate diagnosis who reported nighttime urination (nocturia) at least once a night. The control group did not have prostate enlargement or nocturia. The study found that over half of the patients with an enlarged prostate may have a sleep disorder, which could actually be the reason for nocturia, rather than the enlarged prostate. Researcher Dr. Howard Tandeter …
Research Reveals That Increased Education About Sleep Apnea Leads To Better Outcomes.
08/08/2016 02:58 pm ET | Updated Aug 17, 2016 Harold A. Smith, DDS Sleep-disordered breathing is a problem that should not be taken lightly. In addition to leaving you feeling groggy during the day, untreated sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea can lead to several other health problems, including high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and heart disease. Effective treatments such ascontinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy and oral appliance therapy are available to treat obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Apnea Treatment Options Obstructive sleep apnea is caused when the tongue and soft palate collapse onto the back of the …
Obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia increases risk of workplace injury.
By: Emily Lunardo | Sleep | Wednesday, April 13, 2016 – 12:30 PM Obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia increase the risk of workplace injury. A Canadian study looked at workplace injury and obstructive sleep apnea, and found that the risk of injury increased with severity of obstructive sleep apnea. The researchers looked at over 1,200 sleep clinic patients and found that individuals with sleep apnea had double the risk of experiencing a workplace injury and were three times more likely to have an injury related to failed vigilance, such as tripping or falling. Study author Najib Ayas said, “A …
How insomnia makes us sick, and how to put the problem to rest.
BY MEG HASKELL, BDN STAFF FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH 2016 Corky Potter of Orono sits with a head full of electrodes that will monitor his brain activity while undergoing a sleep study at St. Joseph Healthcare Center for Sleep Medicine in Bangor. (Ashley L. Conti | BDN) (BDN) — There’s nothing like a good night’s rest to get you off to a fresh start on a new day. But for many people, especially those in middle age and older, that sweet sleep is an elusive dream. Jann Jones, 62, of Glenburn remembers clearly the last solid night of sleep she …
Driver who fell asleep and crashed into police car gets $2,500 fine and 12-month driving ban.
PUBLISHED JUL 25, 2016, 3:51 PM SGT Amir Hussain SINGAPORE – A 51-year-old driver, who has a sleep disorder, crashed into a police car along an expressway when he fell asleep behind the wheel in December last year, a court heard. Sarudin Nasir had slept for just 1½ hours the night before. The accident caused the police car to hit an Aetos auxiliary police motorcycle; two policemen in the car were injured. On Monday (July 25), the motorist was fined $2,500 and barred from driving for 12 months. He pleaded guilty to one charge of doing a negligent act which …
Surgery Risk for Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published on July 29, 2016 Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) face an elevated risk of perioperative complications; the risk is even higher if the diagnosis has not been made before surgery. This is so for many OSA patients, as Philipp Fassbender and colleagues point out in a review in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. In these patients with OSA, sedation and anesthesia weaken the activation of the airway-opening muscles just as sleep does, potentially leading to airway obstruction. This elevates the risk of perioperative complications—eg, because of difficult intubation—in patients with OSA. Thus, as the authors stress, it …
Scientists Measure Eye Pressure of Sleeping Patients to Find Link Between OSAS and Glaucoma
Published on July 25, 2016 Hokkaido University researchers have measured the eye pressure of sleeping patients with obstructive sleep apnea, revealing a correlation between this disorder and glaucoma, reports News Medical. Glaucoma is thought to be a disease in which the optic nerve sustains damage due to increased eye pressure, resulting in a restricted visual field. In addition to strokes and cardiovascular disease such as heart attacks, people with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) are prone to suffer from glaucoma at a rate about 10 times higher than non-OSAS sufferers. However, it has been technically difficult to continuously measure …
9 Alternative Therapies for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published on September 18, 2014 CPAP is the gold standard for obstructive sleep apnea, but what about patients who can’t—or won’t—tolerate it or who need an additional therapy? We profile the spectrum of FDA-approved therapies, including when to try them, considerations for each, and new developments. By Sree Roy DEVICES Oral Appliances Information source: Dr Kathleen Bennett, president, American Academy of Dental Medicine How it works: Oral appliance therapy (OAT) helps prevent the collapse of the tongue and soft tissues in the back of the throat by supporting the jaw in a forward position, keeping the airway open during sleep. …
Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Periodic Snoring Sound Recorded at Home.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.5922 Anniina Alakuijala, MD, PhD1,2; Tapani Salmi, MD, PhD1,2 1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland; 2Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Supplemental Material Login to view supplemental material Study Objectives The cost-effectiveness of diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) could be improved by using a preliminary screening method among subjects with no suspicion of other sleep disorders. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of periodic snoring sound recorded at home. Methods We included 211 subjects, aged 18–83 (130 men), who were referred to our laboratory for suspicion of OSA, and had …
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