Effect of Sleep-disordered Breathing Severity on Cognitive Performance Measures in a Large Community Cohort of Young School-aged Children.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children is associated with cognitive challenges. However, potential associations between SDB severity and neurocognitive function, as well as the presence of an SDB cutoff, have not been fully explored.

Objectives

To determine whether SDB-associated adverse changes in neurocognitive functioning are severity dependent.

Methods

A total of 1,010 snoring and nonsnoring children ages 5-7 years were prospectively recruited from public schools and underwent polysomnography and neurocognitive assessments of intellectual, attention, memory, language, and executive function development. The children were subdivided into four severity groups on the basis of apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), followed by comparisons of cognitive function, w

SUBMITTER: Hunter SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5027230 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature