Chiara Cogliati

TL;DR: Cardiovascular variability is altered in patients with OSA, evident even in the absence of hypertension, heart failure, or other disease states and may be linked to the severity of OSA.

TL;DR: The development of new non-linear approaches seems to provide a new perspective in investigating neural control of cardiovascular system as linear methodologies fail to provide significant information in conditions of extremely reduced variability.

TL;DR: An early diagnosis of sleep disorders is essential to prevent detrimental effects on health and an early assessment of a condition of SD and its treatment is clinically relevant to prevent the harmful consequences of a very common condition in adult population.

TL;DR: Symbolic analysis of 3 beat sequences takes into account the different time course of sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac modulations and seems appropriate for elucidating the neural pathophysiological mechanisms occurring during the short periods that precede acute cardiac events.

TL;DR: The reduction of complexity of the neural control obtained by spinalization decreases the regularity in the sympathetic outflow, thus pointing to a weaker coupling between the sympathetic discharge and ventilation, and the proposed index is obtained without an a-priori definition of the pattern length.