INTRODUCTION: Hypertension (HTN) diagnosis depends on the accuracy and representativeness of blood pressure (BP) obtained by different methods. In pediatric obese patients, office BP can present great variability and does not detect nighttime changes. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) allows re...
Objetivos: O estudo teve por objetivo, verificar a prevalência de indivíduos que apresentam risco intermediário ou alto para desenvolver Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono (AOS) e verificar o nível de conhecimento destes indivíduos sobre a doença. Métodos: É um estudo transversal, quantitativo, descritivo...
INTRODUCTION: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a growing public health problem especially due to its association with thromboembolic phenomena. Among its risk factors, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has increased in incidence and is often under diagnosed. OSA increases the risk of AF by mechanisms not fully kn...
ABSTRACT: Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is the main secondary form associated with resistant hypertension (RH), but it is largely underdiagnosed and consequently undertreated in clinical practice. The Berlin questionnaire (BQ) is a useful tool among general population, but seems to not perform well amon...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate if treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) compared to usual care in stroke patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) over one month reduces delta and alpha oscillations on quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) in association with improvements in cognitive ...
