AASM & AADSM jointly published an Oral appliance therapy clinical guideline. It recommended that sleep physicians consider the prescription of oral appliances for adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as an alternative to CPAP therapy, while dentists use a custom, titratable oral appliance (OAT). …
AASM & AADSM jointly published an Oral appliance therapy clinical guideline. It recommended that sleep physicians consider the prescription of oral appliances for adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as an alternative to CPAP therapy, while dentists use a custom, titratable oral appliance (OAT). …
Hypertension and its epidemiology : Hypertension is a leading preventable risk factor for Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality worldwide (1,2). In 2010, a total of 1.38 billion people (31.1%
Chronic insomnia is a common sleep disorder that is characterized by difficulty in falling asleep at an initial stage, waking up during the night, and waking earlier than expected. The
Numerous speakers, including Mayo Clinic, which is just recently ranked #1 in the US, have integrated its CBT-I with EHR for treating chronic insomnia. Mayo Clinic‘s findings demonstrated the importance of feedback and interaction with patients, especially feedback about self-selected changes to behavior, e.g., progress, nudge/rewards. …
It has been a long debate about whether sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) increases cardiovascular risk. During the keynote of SLEEP 2022, Dr. Susan Redline (MD, MPH, professor of sleep medicine and epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) shared her findings on the physiologic impact of sleep apnea on stroke, hypertension and heart failure. The most insightful sharing from Dr. Redline is that we cannot rely on only one figure: AHI, as AHI does not identify sleep disruption autonomic stresses or phenotypic heterogeneity. Same AHI can have different: (1) duration and distribution of events; (2) Physiological consequences, including sleep fragmentation, hypoxic burden, pressure swings and autonomic cardiovascular (CV) responses. …
Belun is going to join SLEEP 2022 Tutorial. We are going to host a dinner gather with sharing session about AI-enabled Medical Wearable in Sleep Medicine Research on 7:30pm on Monday in 6th June, 2022 in Rosster’s Wood Fired Kitchen – Uptown, 150N, College Street, Suite 1000, Charlotte, NC 28202, (704) 370-7667. …
OSA is a commonly seen sleep disorder with life-threatening consequences. Still, we see its high undiagnosed rate due to the not-so-friendly screening environment: many wires connecting to the patients’ bodies and sleeping in an unfamiliar bedroom, a sleep laboratory, and charging at a high rate. All of these create a high barrier to the mass, whose perception is “OSA would wait” without realizing the damage to their hearts and brains in the long run. Instead, Belun focused on developing a handy wearable so that the public would do the test at home, on their own, with no technician required. …