Treating sleep apnea in Alzheimer's patients helps cognition

Bio-Medicine
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment seems to improve cognitive functioning in patients with Alzheimer's disease who also suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial conducted at the University of California, San Diego. The study led by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and one of the nation's preeminent experts in the field of sleep disorders and sleep research in aging populations was published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

"Although it is unlikely that OSA causes dementia, the lowered...read the whole story

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