Oui, l'apnée centrale peut contribuer à l'anxiété, à la dépression et à des troubles de l'humeur.
Santé mentaleAnxiétéDépression
#5
L'apnée centrale peut-elle affecter la vie sexuelle ?
Oui, elle peut entraîner une diminution de la libido et des problèmes relationnels en raison de la fatigue.
Vie sexuelleFatigueRelations
Facteurs de risque
5
#1
Quels sont les principaux facteurs de risque ?
Les facteurs incluent l'âge, l'obésité, les maladies cardiaques et les antécédents familiaux.
Facteurs de risqueObésitéAntécédents familiaux
#2
L'âge influence-t-il le risque d'apnée centrale ?
Oui, le risque augmente avec l'âge, surtout chez les personnes de plus de 65 ans.
ÂgeRisqueApnée du sommeil
#3
Les maladies neurologiques sont-elles un facteur de risque ?
Oui, des conditions comme l'AVC ou la sclérose en plaques peuvent augmenter le risque d'apnée centrale.
Maladies neurologiquesAVCSclérose en plaques
#4
Le sexe joue-t-il un rôle dans le risque ?
Oui, les hommes sont généralement plus à risque que les femmes, bien que les femmes soient également touchées.
SexeRisqueApnée du sommeil
#5
Le tabagisme est-il un facteur de risque ?
Oui, le tabagisme peut aggraver les symptômes et augmenter le risque d'apnée centrale du sommeil.
TabagismeFacteurs de risqueApnée du sommeil
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Department of Internal Medicine, University Health Center and John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States. Electronic address: sbadr@med.wayne.edu.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Department of Internal Medicine, University Health Center and John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.
Division of Respiratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G1X8, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: indra.narang@sickkids.ca.
Universitätsklinik für Pneumologie, Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern, Universität Bern, Bern, Schweiz.
Sleep Research Laboratories of the University Health Network Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (KITE) and Toronto General Hospital and Department of Medicine of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Kanada.
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: Marat.fudim@duke.edu.
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In the first 5 years, all patient quality and safety metrics improved between 10% and 60%. This improvement resulted in higher CMS Star Ranking and Leapfrog patient safety grade. The next phase includ...
High reliability principles are applicable in a resource limited healthcare system. Improved clinical and operational results were achieved through goal setting, improvement teams, and data driven pro...
Occult hernias, hernias seen on radiologic imaging but not felt on physical exam, are common. Despite their high prevalence, little is known about the natural history of this finding. Our aim was to d...
This was a prospective cohort study of patients who underwent a computed tomography (CT) abdomen/pelvis scan from 2016 to 2018. Primary outcome was change in AW-QOL using the modified Activities Asses...
A total of 131 (65.8%) patients with occult hernias completed follow-up with a median (IQR) of 15.4 (22.5) months. Nearly half of these patients (42.8%) experienced a decrease in their AW-QOL, 26.0% w...
When untreated, patients with occult hernias on average experience no change in their AW-QOL. However, many patients experience improvement in AW-QOL after hernia repair. Additionally, occult hernias ...
Social safety nets are expanding in Sub-Saharan Africa. While proponents perceive them as a means to combat poverty and vulnerability, opponents view them as wasteful use of scarce public resources an...
Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide care to 30 million patients in the US and have shown better outcomes and processes than other practice types. Little is known about how the COVID-19 ...
To compare postpandemic operational characteristics and capabilities of FQHCs with non-FQHC safety net practices and non-FQHC, non-safety net practices....
This nationally representative survey conducted from June 2022 to February 2023 with an oversampling of safety net practices in the US included practice leaders working in stratified random selection ...
Practice type: FQHC vs non-FQHC safety net and non-FQHC practices....
Primary care capabilities, including 2 measures of access and 11 composite measures....
A total of 1245 practices (221 FQHC and 1024 non-FQHC) responded of 3498 practices sampled. FQHCs were more likely to be independently owned and have received COVID-19 funding. FQHCs and non-FQHC safe...
The results of this survey study suggest that FQHCs outperformed non-FQHC practices on important care processes while serving a patient population with lower incomes who are medically underserved comp...
Among women with non-metastatic breast cancer, marked disparities in stage at presentation, receipt of guideline-concordant treatment and stage-specific survival have been shown in national cohorts ba...
We conducted a retrospective study of patients with invasive ductal or lobular breast cancer, diagnosed and treated between 2009 and 2014 at an urban, academic safety-net hospital. Demographic, tumor ...
520 women with stage 1-3 invasive breast cancer were identified. Median age was 58.5 years, 56.1% were non-white, 31.7% were non-English-speaking, 16.4% were Hispanic, and 50.1% were Medicaid/uninsure...
Among patients diagnosed and treated at an academic safety-net hospital, there were no differences in the stage at presentation or receipt of guideline-concordant treatment by race, ethnicity, insuran...
To investigate the relative progress of safety-net hospitals (SNHs) under Medicare's Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) mandatory bundled payment model over 2016-2020 and to identify the c...
Secondary data on all CJR hospitals were collected from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public use files and from the American Hospital Association....
We addressed whether SNHs can achieve progress in financial performance under CJR by focusing on the relative change in reconciliation payments or the difference between episode spending and target pr...
Compared to CJR hospitals overall, SNHs were less successful in meeting episode spending targets. Hospital factors dominated socioeconomic factors in explaining progress among SNHs, but not among non-...
The formula used by CMS to determine spending targets may not be sufficient to address disparities in SNH financial performance under mandatory bundled payment....