Double-headed arrow (between “Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome” and “Obesity”): This indicates a bidirectional relationship between Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and obesity. Intermittent hypoxia ...

Patients with ischemic stroke and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have elevated fibrinogen levels, which correlate positively with apnea severity, suggest Wessendorf et al in a paper published in the ...

Obstructive sleep apnea induces a metabolic chain reaction that leads to increases in weight and blood sugar levels, among other unhealthy changes.

Credit: Getty Images Early recognition and management of obstructive sleep apnea are critical to preventing cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic complications in older adults. Screening for OSA ...

Will the weight reduction successes seen with use of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists translate into improvement in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)? Will those potential OSA benefits reduce the ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious, chronic sleep-related breathing disease that impacts an estimated 80 million people in the United States and nearly 1 billion globally. Untreated OSA ...