Dementia and abnormal breathing during sleep.
We have examined a group of cognitively impaired elderly people who already showed some increase in indices of sleep-disordered breathing and applied standard criteria for dementia to them. This resulted in a subgroup of truly demented subjects who showed significantly more abnormal breathing during sleep than either normal subjects or those whose cognitive impairment may not have been due to a dementing illness.
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General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Sydney.
Mant
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Eyland
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Saunders
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003071:Cognition; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis