Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by the throat muscles and the soft tissues in the back of the throat — usually the tongue but also the tonsils and adenoids (the tissue that sits just behind ...

Increasing global temperatures are ruining sleep quality across the world. Sleep apnea, a common breathing disorder, is ...

People with insomnia and concomitant obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) represented a fairly common, medically complex group for ...

South Shore Health's Dr. Todd Ellerin says a study recently showed that there was a 45% increase in obstructive sleep apnea ...

A new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine explores the consequences of sleep apnea on active-duty ...

In OSA, oxygen desaturation respiratory events during REM sleep occur more often in Black adults, especially Black women, than in White adults.

The traditional polysomnography (PSG) examination for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) diagnosis needs to measure several signals, such as EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG and the oxygen level in blood, of a patient ...