sleep apnea
sleep disorder characterized by repeated cessation and commencing of breathing that disrupts sleep
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Summary
sleep apnea is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,994 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: sleep disorder[4], apnea[5], sleep-related breathing disorder[6], disease[7]
- Commons category: Sleep apnea[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: P06[9]
- Possible treatment: continuous positive airway pressure[10], Positional Therapy Versus CPAP for Positional OSA[11], Mandibular advancement splint[12], weight loss[13]
- ICD-9-CM: 780.57[14]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26884[15]
- Different from: insomnia[16], amnesia[17]
- Health specialty: pulmonology[18], otolaryngology[19]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: continuous positive airway pressure[20]
- Union of: list of values as qualifiers[21]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050847[22], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0050847[23], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000581[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[25]
Why It Matters
sleep apnea has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]