The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) is a scale that tells whether you have a sleep disorder called apnea and, if so, how serious it is. Sleep apnea is when you stop breathing for 10 seconds or more ...

Therapies for obstructive sleep apnea have been designed to reduce the frequency of sleep-disordered breathing events (i.e., AHI and REI). The most effective therapy to reduce obstructive sleep ...

Sleep apnea patients with larger mouths ... more than 50% reduction in the respiratory event index (REI) -- a single-center, randomized crossover trial comprising 69 adults with obstructive sleep ...

May 8 (UPI) --Sleep apnea could be costing you brain power and increasing your risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a new study says. The drop in blood oxygen levels that occurs during a ...

[1] The patients completed the Medical Outcome Study Sleep Scale (MOS-SS), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), and Sleep Apnea Scale of the Sleep Disorders Questionnaire (SA-SDQ).* ...

Central Sleep ... apnea (OSA) treated with an optimally titrated mandibular advancement splint, normalization of the respiratory effort index derived from vertical mandibular movements (MM-REI ...