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Article: Central sleep apnea syndrome.(SLEEP MEDICINE)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is often interchanged with Sleep Apnea when actually SDB encompasses any form of disordered breathing during sleep. Not to be overlooked is Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome; characterized by a cessation or decrease of ventilatory effort during sleep and usually associated with oxygen desaturation. Central Sleep Apnea is a respiratory disturbance that often is predisposed by cerebrovascular or cardiac disease.
The control of breathing changes with sleep. While awake we have two control centers which help set the breathing pattern. The automatic control centers provide a regular cycle of breathing and the metabolic control centers ...