These episodes determine sleep fragmentation, hypoxemia, hypercapnia, marked swings in intrathoracic pressure and increased sympathetic activity (4). [medichub.ro]

OSA became a frequent syndrome with an estimated prevalence of 2-5% in gene-ral population, characterized by “pauses or apneas at least 10 per hour of sleep, with intermittent hypoxemia, sleep destruction, hypersomnolence and serious neuro-humoral and [pneumologia.eu]

When he is not actively hiccupping, Sands feels like he is about to hiccup at any moment, much like the tickle before a sneeze. "I'm curled up in a ball on the floor, writhing around in pain, drinking water." [abcnews.go.com]

"The're cognitively impaired, they have an increased appetite and decreased inhibitions," said Silber. Lori Haller always makes sure someone is with Eric during his periods of sleep. [abcnews.go.com]

Following the discovery of continuos positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) through nasal mask, in 1981(5), the characteris-tics and consequences of OSA were considered, after insomnia, the sleep disturbance with the highest pre-valence in the general [pneumologia.eu]

"If it's reversed naturally without medication and it's followed by three or four nights of complete insomnia, then it's a bipolar variant," said Dr. [abcnews.go.com]

Martin Makary, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research, who pointed out that the muscle can contract irregularly due to irritation or an abnormality such as a hole. [abcnews.go.com]

[…] apnea during night time sleep, difficulty with nocturnal sleep mainte-nance with unrefreshing sleep, excessive nicturia, mor-ning headaches, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), difficulty with concentration, memory loss (short-term), impaired cognition, irritability [pneumologia.eu]

The patients were clinically and paraclinically evalu-ated for various sleep disordered-breathing (SDB), including Epworth questionnaire and somnolence scale. [pneumologia.eu]