Dementia and Abnormal Breathing during Sleep

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Age and ageing 1990-07, Vol.19 (4), p.247-252
Hauptverfasser: POND, C. D., MANT, A., EYLAND, E. A., SAUNDERS, N. A.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Causes of
Cognition
Cognition in old age
Dementia
Dementia - complications
Dementia - diagnosis
Elderly
Female
Humans
Intelligence Tests
Male
Old age cognition
Physiological aspects
Psychological aspects
Sleep apnea
Sleep apnea syndromes
Sleep Apnea Syndromes - complications
Sleep Apnea Syndromes - diagnosis
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0002-0729
1468-2834
DOI:10.1093/ageing/19.4.247