Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in children is characterized by recurrent events of partial or complete upper airway obstruction during sleep, resulting in disruption of normal gas exchange ...

Table 1 shows that this "chest-pressure" method moved no air whatsoever when the subject's head was in the natural or flexed position, because of upper-airway obstruction. Even when the airway was ...

OSA occurs when the tissues of the upper airway—the tongue ... but the air can't get past the obstruction. As a result, airflow through your nose and mouth is reduced or cut off during these ...

The team also sought to see if such compression occurred in upper airway cells. Researchers exposed cultures of human cells that line the upper airway, known as human bronchial epithelium ...