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April 24-25, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
16th World Congress on
Psychiatry and Psychological Syndromes
Volume 20, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Psychiatry 2017
ISSN: 2378-5756 Psychiatry, an open access journal Psychiatry 2017
April 24-25, 2017
Ali Mahmood Khan et al., J Psychiatry 2017, 20:2 (Suppl)
Obstructive sleep apnea, association to neurocognitive impairment: Therapeutic strategies and priorities
Ali Mahmood Khan, Mudasar Hassan, Hema Madhuri Mekala, Rizwan Ahmed and Sabrina K Dar
Dr Tariq Clinic, USA
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) refers to a fairly common, multisystem chronic disorder which results due to reoccurring
partial as well as the total pharyngeal obstruction in the course of sleeping. OSA presents with typical symptoms such as excess
sleepiness, involvement in vehicle accidents due to falling asleep at the wheel and some degree of systemic hypertension. There has
been an indication of an indirect connection between excess daytime sleepiness and the future incidents of cognitive decline and
dementia.
Aim: The primary objective of this systemic and meta-analysis review is to provide current knowledge of practicing, diagnosing and
treating patients with OSA and associated neurocognitive deficit disorders.
Methodology: Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, outlined
search strategy allowed for the retrieval of a total of 312 articles following the removal of duplicates from various sources. The
identified results were then reviewed by a single independent researcher. From the 312 articles obtained, only 24 studies were relevant
to the topic of review. Article relevance was found after looking at the title of the article and reading their abstracts. After a full-text
review, 15 of the 24 relevant articles were found have a direct association with the main aims of this review and accordingly, these 09
articles were used to extract qualitative data and summarize the findings.
Results: This review shows that there is a definite association between OSA and associated neurocognitive deficit disorders due to the
pathophysiological changes caused by OSA.
Conclusion: The evidence from this review underlines the importance of early identification of cognitive decline (using neuroimaging
and other tests), definite diagnosis and subsequent proper choice of treatment and management options (in accordance with the
associated comorbidities presented by the patient) so as to lower morbidity and mortality rates.
Biography
Ali Mahmood Khan is a Medical graduate from Pakistan and he has published numerous papers and presented in national and international forums. He has recently
joined Dr Tariq clinic in New York. His interests are in community and adult psychiatry and psychopharmacology.