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Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of oral mandibular advancement devices and continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea.

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Although CPAP has a greater treatment effect, MAD is an appropriate treatment for patients who are intolerant of CPAP and may be comparable to CPAP in mild disease.
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This article is published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.The article was published on 2016-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Continuous positive airway pressure & Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

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Phenotypes in obstructive sleep apnea: A definition, examples and evolution of approaches.

TL;DR: The use of machine learning is discussed as a promising phenotyping strategy that can integrate multiple types of data (genomic, molecular, cellular, clinical) to identify unique, meaningful OSA phenotypes.
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Sleep Disorder Diagnosis During Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth.

TL;DR: Considering the high prevalence of sleep disorders during pregnancy and availability of evidence-based nonpharmacologic interventions, current findings suggest that screening for severe presentations would be prudent.
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Comparative efficacy of CPAP, MADs, exercise-training, and dietary weight loss for sleep apnea: a network meta-analysis

TL;DR: CPAP is the most efficacious in complete resolution of sleep apnea and in improving the indices of saturation during sleep, and MADs offer a reasonable alternative to CPAP, exercise training which significantly improved daytime sleepiness could be used as adjunctive to the former two.
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Comparison of the effects of continuous positive airway pressure and mandibular advancement devices on sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: a network meta-analysis

TL;DR: Continuous positive airway pressure seemed to be a more effective treatment than mandibular advancement devices, and had an increasingly larger effect in more severe or sleepier obstructive sleep apnoea patients when compared with inactive controls.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Exercise Training Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: Objective measurement of physical activity in routine OSA management and well-designed clinical trials are recommended and future interventions (including exercise training) focusing on increasing physical activity levels may have important clinical impacts on both OSA severity and the burden of associated co-morbidities.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

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A new method for measuring daytime sleepiness: the Epworth sleepiness scale.

TL;DR: The development and use of a new scale, the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), is described, which is a simple, self-administered questionnaire which is shown to provide a measurement of the subject's general level of daytime sleepiness.
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The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults

TL;DR: The prevalence of undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing is high among men and is much higher than previously suspected among women, and is associated with daytime hypersomnolence.
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WinBUGS – A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility

TL;DR: How and why various modern computing concepts, such as object-orientation and run-time linking, feature in the software's design are discussed and how the framework may be extended.
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