Treating sleep apnea in Alzheimer's patients helps cognition
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 02:29
in Health & Medicine
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment seems to improve cognitive functioning in patients with Alzheimer's disease who also suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the results of a randomised clinical trial conducted at the University of California, San Diego. The study - led by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and one of the nation's pre-eminent experts in the field of sleep disorders and sleep research in ageing populations - was published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society...