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Update on nonapnea sleep disordersR Vorona
Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sleep Disorders Center, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk 23507 1999, USA
Curr Opin Pulm Med 6:507-11. 2000..Finally, new drugs used to treat insomnia offer more flexible treatment options and an old and previously vilified drug may allow sleep specialists to better understand the mechanisms of sleep...
Sleep disordered breathing and driving riskRobert D Vorona
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA
Curr Opin Pulm Med 8:506-10. 2002..Educating the patient with sleep apnea about sleepy driving and objective documentation of treatment efficacy are important in reducing the likelihood of accidents...
Multiple sleep latency test by polysomnography: a case reportRobert Daniel Vorona
Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Sleep Disorder Center, Virginia 23507, USA
Sleep Breath 7:147-9. 2003..In this case report the authors detail how multiple polysomnograms performed over 6 years eventually suggested that a patient had both obstructive sleep apnea and narcolepsy...
Overweight and obese patients in a primary care population report less sleep than patients with a normal body mass indexRobert D Vorona
Division of Sleep Medicine, Departments of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:25-30. 2005..Evidence links sleep loss to hormonal changes that could result in obesity. This article examines the association between restricted sleep and obesity in a heterogeneous adult primary care population...
Skin pigmentation changes in a patient with a sleep disorderRobert D Vorona
Division of Sleep Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 3:535-6. 2007
Treatment of severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome with a chinstrapRobert D Vorona
Division of Sleep Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 3:729-30. 2007..A chinstrap alone improved severe obstructive sleep apnea as well as or better than the use of CPAP...
Dissimilar teen crash rates in two neighboring southeastern Virginia cities with different high school start timesRobert Daniel Vorona
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 600 Gresham Drive, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Eastern Virginia Medical School Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Sleep Disorders Center, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 7:145-51. 2011..Virginia Beach (VB) and Chesapeake are adjacent, demographically similar cities. VB high schools start 75-80 minutes earlier than Chesapeake's. We hypothesized that VB teens would manifest a higher crash rate than Chesapeake teens...
