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Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Launches Evora Full in New Zealand, Australia
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has released the Evora Full CPAP mask in New Zealand and Australia, according to a company news announcement.
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Child Sleep Apnea Tied to Hypertension Risk in Teens
Children with obstructive sleep apnea are nearly three times more likely to develop high blood pressure when they become teenagers than children who never experience OSA.
COVID-19 Impact on Sleep Quality and CPAP Use
A Philips survey found 70% of people have experienced one or more new sleep challenges since the start of the pandemic and 72% of sleep apnea patients who discontinued CPAP therapy cited COVID-19 related reasons.
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How Intermittent Hypoxia Impacts Jaw Cartilage Growth
Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University have shown that intermittent hypoxia can result in underdeveloped jaw cartilage in rats.
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Nyxoah Partners with Vanderbilt to Develop More Neurostimulation Tech for OSA
Nyxoah SA is working on getting FDA approval and has signed an exclusive license agreement with Vanderbilt University.
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FDA Authorizes eXciteOSA Daytime Device to Treat Sleep Apnea
The eXciteOSA is a removable tongue muscle stimulation device that delivers neuromuscular stimulation to the tongue in order to reduce snoring and mild sleep apnea for patients who are 18 years or older.
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How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted CPAP Use?
Many clinicians anticipated that obstructive sleep apnea patients would struggle to continue their care during the public health crisis. Here’s what the published data tells us.
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Does Sleep Apnea Lead to Higher Mortality in COVID-19 Patients?
A paper published in Sleep Medicine Reviews looks at how obstructive sleep apnea impacts COVID-19 patients.
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WatchPAT Effective at Diagnosing Sleep Apnea in Atrial Fibrillation Patients
Itamar Medical announced results from a new study that validated the use of WatchPAT against gold standard in-lab PSG in the diagnosis of sleep apnea in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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People with Sleep Apnea Disproportionately Admitted to Hospital for COVID-19
Researchers studied patients during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and found that sleep apnea emerged as a suspected risk factor.
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CPAP Medic Offers Direct-to-patient CPAP, BiPAP Repairs
According to Repair Authority, CPAP Medic is the only CPAP repair and maintenance service targeted specifically to the patient market.
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An Easier Way to Stop CPAP from Aerosolizing the Coronavirus?
Johns Hopkins undergraduates found that coronavirus viral particles escape during CPAP therapy through a gap where the mask doesn’t conform directly to the patient’s face, reports the News-Letter.
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Untreated Sleep Apnea Linked with Flu Hospitalization
A study published online as an accepted paper in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is finds that patients with sleep apnea who did not use CPAP therapy were more likely to be hospitalized with the flu.
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This Simple Blood Test Can Help Predict Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in OSA Patients
New research finds that testing for an inflammatory marker is a stronger predictor than apnea-hypopnea index alone.
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