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  2. Peripheral artery disease - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a form of peripheral vascular disease. Vascular refers to the arteries and veins within the body. PAD differs from peripheral veinous disease. PAD means the arteries are narrowed or blocked—the vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood as it moves from the heart to other parts of the body.

  3. Fatal insomnia - Wikipedia

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    The sporadic form of the disease often presents with double vision. Prolonged constipation is common as well. As the disease progresses, the person becomes stuck in a state of pre-sleep limbo, or hypnagogia, which is the state just before sleep in healthy individuals. During these stages, people commonly and repeatedly move their limbs as if ...

  4. Hypopnea - Wikipedia

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    Hypopnea during sleep is classed as a sleep disorder. With moderate to severe hypopnea, sleep is disturbed such that patients may get a full night's sleep but still not feel rested. The disruption in breathing causes a drop in blood oxygen level, which may in turn disrupt the stages of sleep.

  5. Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea - Wikipedia

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    Central sleep apnea in heart failure's epidemiology is relevant, as sleep apnea and heart failure have both been associated in people with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. [12] According to the study, researchers were able to conclude that ~70% of people with heart failure had breathing disorders while they slept, while half of that ~70% also ...

  6. Chronic limb threatening ischemia - Wikipedia

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    The latter two conditions are jointly referred to as tissue loss, reflecting the development of surface damage to the limb tissue due to the most severe stage of ischemia. Compared to the other manifestation of PAD, intermittent claudication , CLI has a negative prognosis within a year after the initial diagnosis, with 1-year amputation rates ...

  7. Breath test for Parkinson's disease - AOL

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    There's currently no cure for Parkinson's disease, but researchers say they could be on their way to identifying it via a simple breath test. Cambridge researchers say a small group of people ...

  8. Sleep-related breathing disorder - Wikipedia

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    Sleep apnea is measured by the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). An AHI is determined with a sleep study. AHI values for adults are categorized as: [2] [3] Normal: AHI<5; Mild sleep apnea: 5≤AHI<15; Moderate sleep apnea: 15≤AHI<30; Severe sleep apnea: AHI≥30; An episode is when a person hesitates to breathe or stops their breathing altogether.

  9. Obstructive sleep apnea - Wikipedia

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    Obese people show an increase in neck fat tissue which potentiate respiratory obstruction during sleep. [53] However, people of all ages and sex with normal body mass indices (BMIs) can also demonstrate OSA – and these people do not have significant measures of subdermal or intra neck fat as shown on DEXA scans. It is speculated that they may ...