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Linda Parker
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 5
Citations - 511
Linda Parker is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Apnea & Sleep disorder. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 494 citations.
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Dementia in institutionalized elderly : relation to sleep apnea
TL;DR: The hypothesis for study is that sleep apnea causes deficits in brain function, possibly due to global effects rather than any particular cortical or subcortical structure, and there is a strong relationship between dementia andsleep apnea when theSleep apnea and dementia are severe.
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Sleep Apnea in Female Patients in a Nursing Home: Increased Risk of Mortality
TL;DR: Results show that respiratory disturbances in sleep are an extremely significant risk factor for mortality in elderly women who are in poor health.
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Twenty-four-hour sleep-wake patterns in a nursing home population.
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that several independent factors, including compensation for lost sleep, increased total time in bed, weakening of social constraints, and deterioration of the circadian sleep-wake rhythm, are interacting to produce this increase in sleep fragmentation.
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Natural History of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Community Dwelling Elderly
Sonia Ancoli-Israel,Daniel F. Kripke,Melville R. Klauber,Linda Parker,Carl Stepnowsky,Allison Kullen,Robert Fell +6 more
TL;DR: Sleep disordered breathing measured at a single point in time is rather weakly predictive of the severity of breathing disorder 4-8 years later, even when controlled for body mass index.
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Sleep-Disordered Breathing Preliminary Natural History and Mortality Results
Sonia Ancoli-Israel,Melville R. Klauber,Robert Fell,Linda Parker,Lynne A. Kenney,Richard Willens +5 more
TL;DR: Clinically, there are often hundreds of apneas and hypopneas seen during the night, accompanied by drops in oxygen saturation levels, and many clinical patients are unable to sleep and breathe at the same time.