Sleep Disordered Breathing and White Matter Hyperintensities in Community-Dwelling Elders

Conclusions:In community-dwelling older adults, self-reported measures of SDB are associated with larger WMH volumes. The cognitive effects of SDB that are increasingly being recognized may be mediated at the small vessel level.Citation:Rostanski SK, Zimmerman ME, Schupf N, Manly JJ, Westwood AJ, Brickman AM, Gu Y. Sleep disordered breathing and white matter hyperintensities in community-dwelling elders. SLEEP 2016;39(4):785–791.
Source: Sleep - Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research