Obstructive sleep apnea was common in never-smokers with lung cancer. Read more about the prospective findings.

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, June 1–5, is the first to find that episodic hypoxemia and hypoxic burden related to obstructive sleep apnea are ...

Patients continuously monitored after surgery experienced significantly less time with dangerously low oxygen levels compared ...

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 ...

Randomized trial shows no difference from sham control ...

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 ...

Squadrone V, Coha M, Cerutti E, Schellino MM, Biolino P, Occella P, et al. Continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of postoperative hypoxemia. A randomized controlled trial. JAMA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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