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Seiji Kawahara
Researcher at Nihon University
Publications - 9
Citations - 616
Seiji Kawahara is an academic researcher from Nihon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Obstructive sleep apnea & Polysomnography. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 9 publications receiving 582 citations.
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Relationship Between Quality of Life and Mood or Depression in Patients With Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Tsuneto Akashiba,Seiji Kawahara,Toshiki Akahoshi,Chiharu Omori,Osamu Saito,Tohru Majima,Takashi Horie +6 more
TL;DR: The QOL of patients with severe OSAS was decreased and strongly correlated with the depression scale on simple regression analysis, and EDS score and oxygen desaturation during sleep also affected the QOL, although the magnitude of its effect was small.
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Nasal CPAP improves the quality of life and lessens the depressive symptoms in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
TL;DR: Although patients with severe OSAS have poorer QOL than control subjects, nasal CPAP appears to improve QOL by alleviating depression and no relationship was evident between treatment-associated score changes in SF-36 domains and ESS score change.
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Clinical characteristics of obesity-hypoventilation syndrome in Japan: a multi-center study.
Tsuneto Akashiba,Toshiki Akahoshi,Seiji Kawahara,Akihito Uematsu,Kazuhito Katsura,Shigeru Sakurai,Akira Murata,Hiroki Sakakibara,Kazuo Chin,Wataru Hida,Hiroshi Nakamura +10 more
TL;DR: Impaired pulmonary function may play an important role in the development of daytime hypercapnia independent of obesity in OHS patients, which display numerous abnormalities due to obesity compared with non-OHS patients.
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Determinants of chronic hypercapnia in Japanese men with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
Tsuneto Akashiba,Seiji Kawahara,Naoko Kosaka,Daisuke Ito,Osamu Saito,Tohru Majima,Takashi Horie +6 more
TL;DR: Nocturnal desaturation and restrictive pulmonary impairment play major roles in determining the PaCO(2) in hypercapnic and obese OSAS patients without airflow obstruction.
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Effects of long-term nasal continuous positive airway pressure on C-reactive protein in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
TL;DR: Serum levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) were measured in 96 consecutive patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome before and after nasal continous positive airway pressure treatment, suggesting that CRP levels in patients with OSAS may be associated with obesity rather than OSAS itself.