PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Buckley, Rita
ED  - Prabhakar, Nanduri R.
TI  - Intermittent Hypoxia — A Sleep Apnea Model
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 23--24
VI  - 11
IP  - 11
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/11/23.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/11/23.full
AB  - From 1986 to 2002, sleep apnea affected >100 million individuals worldwide [WHO; Chronic Respiratory Diseases]. Apneas lead to periodic desaturation of O2 in arterial blood. In severe cases, O2 saturation drops to nearly 50%, and the frequency of apneas can reach as many as 60 to 90 episodes per hour. This article discusses the effects of intermittent hypoxia on glucose homeostasis.