The American Sleep Apnea Association will be closed from December 24, 2024 through January 1, 2025. We wish you a happy and healthy holiday!
The American Sleep Apnea Association will be closed from December 24, 2024 through January 1, 2025. We wish you a happy and healthy holiday!
One in 50 kids will develop obstructive sleep apnea. “If you look at the bottom third of a classroom in performance, over half those kids will have undiagnosed sleep apnea,” said Floyd Livingston, a pediatric pulmonologist at Nemours Children’s Hospital. Dr. Floyd Livingston says many kids with sleep apnea will be misdiagnosed as being hyperactive….
Based in the Netherlands, Onera’s patch-based technology promises to modernize the outmoded, time-consuming, and costly procedure of traditional sleep testing. In a news release, Onera stated that their clinical-grade technology can provide an update to the traditional sleep testing procedure, which it claims is “partly responsible” for the underdiagnosis of sleep disorders.The FD decided that…
A study by Almudena Carneiro-Barrera, Ph.D. and colleagues from the University of Granada in Spain, randomly assigned 89 men with moderate-to-severe OSA and body mass index ≥25 kg/m² to an eight-week interdisciplinary weight loss and lifestyle intervention. The 8-week interdisciplinary weight reduction and lifestyle intervention significantly improved OSA severity and other outcomes in this randomized…
