The conundrum of primary snoring in children: What are we missing in regards to cognitive and behavioural morbidity?

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 463-475

  Biggs, Sarah N ^a   Nixon, Gillian M ^a,b   Horne, Rosemary S C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arousal; Behaviour; Children; Cognition; Environment; Hypoxia; Inflammation; OSA; Referral bias; Snoring

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COGNITION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDUCT DISORDER; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DELINQUENCY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MORBIDITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP TIME; SNORING; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SNORING;

EID: 84923223705     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2014.06.009     Document Type: Review

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