LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Rather than weight loss and surgery, getting a CPAP machine has been the top go-to treatment for people with a severe snoring disorder called sleep apnea. But after the Food and ...

Doctors favor treatment with continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines, researchers are slated to report this week at a meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Adobe stock June ...

According to a study published in the European Heart Journal, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a treatment commonly used for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), reduces the risk for serious ...

The drug sulthiame reduces the number of breathing pauses and improves sleep quality in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, according to a European clinical study in which the University of ...

Inspire is an advanced treatment option for some patients with sleep apnea, but is not the best choice for every patient, and involves an outpatient procedure to implant a hypoglossal nerve stimulator ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For changes in office blood pressure from baseline to 6 months, researchers found significant drops among those ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Thirty-eight percent of patients with IPF and OSA died, whereas this rate was 46% in patients with IPF only.

The current study was a meta-analysis of 18 large, prospective, randomized, controlled studies with a total of 4146 patients. The included studies had "cardiovascular," "mortality," or "blood pressure ...

June 9 (UPI) A clash is brewing between doctors and patients when it comes to treatment for sleep apnea in those with obesity, a new study reports. Doctors favor treatment with continuous positive ...