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Article: Another consequence of sleep disordered breathing?(SLEEP MEDICINE)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Reading an article about bedwetting may not be your idea of a good use of time, but if you serve a pediatric patient population, this article may indeed be worth a glance. There is now evidence that obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) may be related to bedwetting. And that bedwetting is partially or completely reversible with appropriate treatment of OSAS in some children. In order to understand the possible relationship between bedwetting and OSAS, it will first be necessary to discuss what is currently known about nocturnal bedwetting and its suspected causes and then to review the available literature that seems to indicate that not only is there a relationship ...