Health care utilization in males with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome two years after diagnosis and treatmentA Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Centre, St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre, Department of Medicine, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Sleep 22:740-7. 1999
..53+0.14 per patient per year (p=0.034) were significant while in the PNAT group they were not. CONCLUSIONS: Adherence to treatment in patients with OSAS results in a significant reduction in physician claims and hospital stays...
- The prevalence of restless legs syndrome in adult Saudis attending primary health care
Ahmed BaHammam
The University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Box 225503, Riyadh 11324, Saudi Arabia
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 33:102-6. 2011
..This study assessed the prevalence and severity of restless leg syndrome (RLS) among patients attending primary health care (PHC) facilities...
- Distribution of chronotypes in a large sample of young adult Saudis
Ahmed S Bahammam
University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ann Saudi Med 31:183-6. 2011
..There are no published data on the chronotypes of young Saudi adults. This study assessed the distribution of chronotypes in college-aged Saudis...
- Evaluation of the accuracy of manual and automatic scoring of a single airflow channel in patients with a high probability of obstructive sleep apnea
Ahmed S Bahammam
University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Med Sci Monit 17:MT13-9. 2011
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- Acute ventilatory failure complicating obesity hypoventilation: update on a 'critical care syndrome'
Ahmed BaHammam
The University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Curr Opin Pulm Med 16:543-51. 2010
..OHS patients may present with acute-on-chronic ventilatory failure, necessitating acute care management. The purpose of this review is to discuss the recent literature on acute ventilatory failure in OHS patients...
- Circadian pattern of sleep, energy expenditure, and body temperature of young healthy men during the intermittent fasting of Ramadan
Ahmed BaHammam
The University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Appetite 54:426-9. 2010
..These results support our hypothesis that in addition to sudden shift in meal times, other factors may affect the sleep pattern and circadian rhythms during Ramadan...
- Prevalence of symptoms and risk of sleep apnea in middle-aged Saudi women in primary care
Ahmed S Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine 38, King Saud University, PO Box 225503, Riyadh 11324, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Med J 30:1572-6. 2009
..To assess the prevalence of symptoms and risks of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in a sample of middle-aged Saudi women in a primary care using a validated questionnaire...
- Cosleeping and its correlates in Saudi school-aged children
Ahmed BaHammam
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Behav Med 15:336-40. 2008
..There are cross-cultural variations in sleep habits among children. No previous study has assessed the prevalence of cosleeping in school-aged children in Middle Eastern countries...
- Clinical characteristics and HLA typing of a family with Kleine-Levin syndrome
Ahmed S Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sleep Med 9:575-8. 2008
..The possible presence of genetic and autoimmune processes has been postulated recently. Our objective was to report for the first time a multiplex KLS Saudi family with 6 out of 12 family members affected...
- Periodic leg movements in narcolepsy patients: impact on sleep architecture
A Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Acta Neurol Scand 115:351-5. 2007
..We assessed the effect of periodic leg movements (PLMs) on sleep architecture in narcolepsy patients by comparing sleep patterns in narcoleptics of comparable age with and without PLMs...
- Sleep duration and its correlates in a sample of Saudi elementary school children
A Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Centre, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 225503, Riyadh 11324, Saudi Arabia
Singapore Med J 47:875-81. 2006
..This study was conducted to estimate sleep duration in Saudi elementary school children, sleep habits and practices that may affect it, and compare our results to published data in other societies...
- Does Ramadan fasting affect sleep?
A Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Clin Pract 60:1631-7. 2006
..Where applicable, these findings are compared with those obtained during experimental fasting...
- Event-related evoked potentials in chronic respiratory encephalopathy
A R Al Tahan
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 5:21-7. 2010
..Cognitive event-related potential (P(300)) is an index of cognitive processing time. It was found to be prolonged in dementia, renal, and hepatic encephalopathies, but was not extensively assessed in respiratory failure...
- Behaviour and time-course of sleep disordered breathing in patients with acute coronary syndromes
A Bahammam
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine 38, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia
Int J Clin Pract 59:874-80. 2005
..1 +/- 0.3 months later on 21 patients and showed an AHI > 10/h in the first assessment. The AHI and the obstructive apnea index did not change over the 6 months. However, the central apnea index all was lower at the second assessment...
