R Mathur, NJ Douglas - Annals of internal medicine, 1995 - Am Coll Physicians Participants: 51 first-degree relatives of patients with the sleep
apnea-hypopnea syndrome and 51 controls matched for age, sex, height, and weight
who were drawn at random from a family practice register. To avoid studying ... Cited by 125 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
G Pillar, P Lavie - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 1995 - Am Thoracic Soc Several reports have suggested a genetic importance in the pathogenesis of the
sleep apnea syndrome (SAS). In this study, all adult (> 16 yr of age) offspring
of 45 randomly selected parents with previously diagnosed SAS were asked to ... Cited by 74 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►chestpubs.org [PDF] C Guilleminault, VC Abad - Medical Clinics of North America, 2004 - Elsevier The first description of an obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) sufferer is generally
attributed to the novelist Charles Dickens, who described “Joe” in The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in 1836. Joe was an ... Cited by 164 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
KP Strohl, NA Saunders, NT Feldman, M … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1978 - content.nejm.org Two sons and their father had severe hypersomnolence and obstructive sleep
apnea. A third son, although asymptomatic, was shown to have upper-airway
obstruction during sleep. Electromyographic recordings of genioglossus ... Cited by 117 - Related articles - All 5 versions
- ►chestjournal.org [PDF] S El Bayadi, RP Millman, PV Tishler, C … - Chest, 1990 - Am Coll Chest Phys Page 1. DOI 10.1378/chest.98.3.554 1990;98;554-559 Chest S Redline S el Bayadi,
RP Millman, PV Tishler, C Rosenberg, W Saliski, MA Boucher and ... Cited by 64 - Related articles - All 9 versions
- ►171.66.122.149 S Redline, J Leitner, J Arnold, PV Tishler, MD … - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 1997 - 171.66.122.149 The role of ventilatory-control abnormalities in predisposing to familial
sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) was assessed in 31 subjects 28 ± 10 yr of age
(mean ± SD). Subjects with (n = 10) and without SDB (n = 12) were ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
T YOSHIZAWA, T AKASHIBA, K KURASHINA, … - Internal Medicine, 1993 - Journal@rchive To investigate the possible influence of genetics in subjects with obstructive
sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), HLA-A, B, C, and DRantigens were studied in 32
Japanese subjects with OSAS.The frequency of HLA-A2antigen was markedly ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►nih.gov LJ Palmer, SG Buxbaum, E Larkin, SR Patel, … - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2003 - Elsevier Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common, chronic, complex disease associated
with serious cardiovascular and neuropsychological sequelae and with substantial
social and economic costs. Along with male gender, obesity is the most ... Cited by 107 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►bmj.com [PDF] NJ Douglas, M Luke, R Mathur - British Medical Journal, 1993 - thorax.bmj.com Abstract Background-The aetiology of the sleep apnoealhypopnoea syndrome (SAHS)
is unclear in many patients. Snoring, a pre- requisite for SAHS, runs in
families. A study was carried out to determine whether there is an ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
