Shazia M Jamil, Shirin Shafazand, Katherine A Dudley, Melissa C Lipford, Chenjuan Gu, Jonathan C Jun, Isadore Budnick, Eric M Davis, David Kent, Jeffrey J Stanley, Rachel Quaney, Nancy H Stewart, Kirsten Young, Shannon Sullivan, Jakob I McSparron, Tisha Wang, Elizabeth Guzman, Başak Çoruh, Margaret M Hayes
The American Thoracic Society Sleep Core Curriculum updates clinicians on important sleep topics, presented during the annual meeting, and appearing in summary here. This year's sleep core theme is sleep-disordered breathing and its management. Topics range from pathophysiological mechanisms for the association of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and metabolic syndrome, surgical modalities of OSA treatment, comorbid insomnia and OSA, central sleep apnea, and sleep practices during a pandemic. OSA has been associated with metabolic syndrome, independent of the role of obesity, and the pathophysiology suggests a role for sleep fragmentation and intermittent hypoxia in observed metabolic outcomes...
September 2021: ATS scholar