The Potentially Harmful Medical Consequences of Untreated Sleep-Disordered Breathing

The authors conducted a literature review to evaluate whether current scientific evidence supports the fact that brain damage results from episodic hypoxia (EH) as seen during sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).In their review, the authors included models that re-created circumstances seen in EH during SDB. They reviewed animal and human studies, including those with children and animal pups as subjects. These studies addressed neurocognitive and...