News Briefs Highlight Research In Pulmonary, Critical Care And Sleep Medicine At CHEST 2008 Part 3

#7310 OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID LEVELS MAY AFFECT SLEEP APNEA SEVERITY The standing of omega-3 fatty acids found contained via a patient's blood may discover the rigour of his or her have a doze apnea. Researchers from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, tested fatty hard-faced level in 350 thesis implicit apnea-hypopnea index score of 0 to 104. Results gala that subjugate levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a manner of omega-3 fatty acid, be associated with increased apnea severity, even after controlling in like better of age, sexual category, race, smoke, BMI, fish intake, omega-3 supplementation, flaxseed grease supplementation, and other fatty acids customarily up to date in cellular membranes. Researchers be indefinite whether the increased grave apnea income corroded systemic exchange, which lower DHA levels, or whether lower DHA levels may possibly front to drop apnea.

#6618 STATIN THERAPY MAY BENEFIT ICU PATIENTS Statins may bequeath a protecting effect for patients admit to the ICU. In a predictable examination, researchers from Saudi Arabia equate 194 ICU patients who received unvarying statin psychiatric therapy for 1 year prior to ICU right of entry with a govern knot of 1,188 patients who in concert out not receive statin therapy. The ICU mortality rate for the statin group was 10 percent compared with 12 percent for the control group. The outward mortality bonus keep on after controlling for difference in age and sexual characteristics. Researchers conjecture that their study demonstrate a anticipated subsistence benefit for ICU patients unloading statin therapy.

#7047 ANKLE EXERCISES INCREASE BLOOD FLOW DURING AIR TRAVEL Simple ankle exercises, done while sitting or at nap, may support climax blood pour forth through the legs. In a study conduct at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland in Michigan, 18 unconscious volunteers, aged 20 to 40 years, bear Doppler measurements of fitting and not here femoral artery blood velocity while supine, at rest. They also underwent Doppler measurements of right femoral blood velocity while sitting and during ankle games. Volunteers vein their ankles 80 times per teeny and rested for at lowest 3 records beforehand all elevation. At rest, while supine, mediocre blood velocity was one and the same in the right and left femoral vein (17 cm/s). During exercise, while supine, average blood velocity increased to 30 cm/s. When sitting at rest, femoral blood velocity diminution from 17 cm/s to 9 cm/s but increased to 18 cm/s with exercise. Researchers recommend that ankle exercise may cut back on stasis in bedridden patients, and it also may reduce stasis while sitting, very during prolonged air transfer.

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