James L. Goodwin

TL;DR: In a cohort of 6,441 volunteers followed over an average of 8.2 years, Naresh Punjabi and colleagues find sleep-disordered breathing to be independently associated with mortality and identify predictive characteristics.

TL;DR: CPAP use resulted in mild, transient improvement in the most sensitive measures of executive and frontal-lobe function for those with severe disease, which suggests the existence of a complex OSA-neurocognitive relationship.

TL;DR: In a community population, self-reported total sleep times and sleep latencies are overestimated even on the morning following overnight PSG in adults.

TL;DR: In community populations such as the SHHS, high specificities may be more useful in excluding low-risk patients, while avoiding false positives, however, sleep clinicians may prefer to use screening tools with high sensitivities, like the STOP-Bang, in order to avoid missing cases that may lead to adverse health consequences and increased healthcare costs.

TL;DR: In preadolescent children, elevated blood pressure is associated with SBD and obesity, as previously noted in adults, and the control of obesity in childhood may be important to reduce the daytime consequences of SBDand the risks of life-long hypertension.