Abnormal breathing patterns during sleep in diabetes

✍ Scribed by Susanna Mondini; Dr Christian Guilleminault

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 438 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410170415

✦ Synopsis

Nineteen diabetic patients, 12 type I (insulin-dependent) and 7 type I1 (late-onset, non-insulin-dependent), underwent nocturnal polygraphic monitoring after a daytime medical evaluation that included tests of vagal responses and, in 6 patients, pulmonary function and hypercapnic and hypoxic responses. Five lean type I patients had abnormal sleeprelated breathing patterns with central or obstructive sleep apnea and brief breathing irregularities during stages 3 to 4 non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, compared with only 1 overweight type I1 diabetic with moderate obstructive sleep