DARIEN, IL – A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting is the first to find that episodic hypoxemia and hypoxic burden related to obstructive sleep apnea are associated with the ...

Randomized trial shows patients are discharged about a day earlier ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In univariate analysis, a 4% oxygen desaturation index greater than 15 was significantly linked to lung cancer ...

Patients who self-report as Black or Hispanic appear more likely than White patients to experience occult hypoxemia during anesthesia, a large retrospective cohort study suggests. "Clinicians expect ...

Patent foramen ovale is usually an incidental finding but can sometimes cause hypoxemia. Patent foramen ovale should be considered when the degree of hypoxemia is disproportionate to the underlying ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis appear to have higher cumulative incidences of exertional and ...

Intermittent hypoxemia prompted higher postprandial plasma triglyceride levels in men than in women compared with normoxia. Intermittent hypoxemia was associated with significantly higher postprandial ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed whether non-invasive estimation of the ratio of arterial oxygen partial pressure (PaO 2) to the fractional inspired ...

One of the physiopathological characteristics of COVID-19 that has most baffled the scientific and medical community is what is known as "silent hypoxemia" or "happy hypoxia". Patients suffering this ...