Obstructive sleep apnea is not just a nighttime sleep disorder its impact may be felt during the day. Reduced brain gray matter concentration in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
People with osa stop breathing repeatedly during sleep.
Obstructive sleep apnea with eds. Impact of obstructive sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea osa is the most common type of sleep apnea it s a potentially serious disorder. These muscles support structures including the back of the roof of your mouth soft palate the triangular piece of tissue hanging from the soft palate uvula the tonsils and the tongue.
Research suggests that sleep apnea is relatively common among those with eds. Airway therapy such as cpap is important for treating the airway obstruction but it may not completely relieve the symptom of excessive daytime sleepiness. There is evidence from studies based on questionnaires that eds patients might be more frequently affected by osa and sleep disturbances than the general population.
Increase in sleep latency frequent awakenings during the night and early morning awakenings psg. A 2017 study of 100 suggests that 32 of those with ehlers danlos syndrome have obstructive sleep apnea compared to just 6 of controls. Brain white matter changes in cpap treated obstructive sleep apnea patients with residual sleepiness.
J magn reson imaging. Obstructive sleep apnea osa is the most common type of sleep apnea and is characterized by repeated episodes of complete or partial obstructions of the upper airway during sleep despite the effort to breathe and is usually associated with a reduction in blood oxygen saturation in the obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome the episodes of decreased breathing are called hypopnea and. Joo ey tae ws lee mj et al.
Both depression and osa have been well characterized with regards to their sleep architecture. Approximately two in five children and adolescents with ehlers danlos syndrome experience impaired breathing during sleep a condition called obstructive sleep apnea osa a study reports. Typically for major depression polysomnography psg findings confirm the patients complaints of insomnia notably difficulties falling asleep psg.
Sleep architecture in depression and osa. In this prospective parallel cohort study we included 100 adult patients with eds 46 hypermobile type 35 classical type and 19 other which were one to one matched to 100 healthy adult controls according to sex age weight and height. Obstructive sleep apnoea osa may be an underlying cause for these symptoms but its prevalence in this population is unclear.
Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of your throat relax too much to allow normal breathing. Xiong y zhou xj nisi ra et al. Eds features such as genetically related cartilage defects craniofacial abnormalities and increased pharyngeal collapsibility have been proposed to cause obstructive sleep apnoea osa.
The condition increases daytime sleepiness and sleep related breathing disorders which reduce the quality.
