Positional Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Model for Precision Sleep Medicine
Avneesh Prabakar, Shervin Eskandari, Tej Murudkar, Wenzhan Song, Xiaoyue Liu, Younghoon Kwon, William J. Healy · 2026
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Description
Sleep apnea that worsens on the back gets a full review from Avneesh Prabakar and colleagues in 2026. In positional obstructive sleep apnea, breathing disturbance scores run much higher lying face-up than in other positions, and the pattern may affect over half of all sleep apnea patients.
Gravity pulls the tongue and soft palate backward when supine, narrowing the airway, and the repeated oxygen drops tie into sharp blood pressure surges. The review gathers evidence on mechanisms, frequency, and treatments that target position-specific causes rather than defaulting to standard CPAP alone. Racial and ethnic gaps in both occurrence and treatment adherence argue for care fitted to each patient.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Avneesh Prabakar, Shervin Eskandari, Tej Murudkar, Wenzhan Song, Xiaoyue Liu, Younghoon Kwon, William J. Healy |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34239 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |