Management of insomnia in sleep disordered breathing

Hennie C J P Janssen; Lisette N Venekamp; Geert A M Peeters; Angelique Pijpers; Dirk A A Pevernagie

doi:10.1183/16000617.0080-2019

Management of insomnia in sleep disordered breathing

Eur Respir Rev. 2019 Oct 9;28(153):190080. doi: 10.1183/16000617.0080-2019. Print 2019 Sep 30.

Authors

Hennie C J P Janssen¹, Lisette N Venekamp¹, Geert A M Peeters¹, Angelique Pijpers¹, Dirk A A Pevernagie^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Sleep Medicine Center Kempenhaeghe, Heeze, The Netherlands.
² Sleep Medicine Center Kempenhaeghe, Heeze, The Netherlands pevernagied@kempenhaeghe.nl.
³ Dept of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Abstract

Both obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and chronic insomnia disorder are highly prevalent in the general population. Whilst both disorders may occur together by mere coincidence, it appears that they share clinical features and that they may aggravate each other as a result of reciprocally adverse pathogenetic mechanisms. Comorbidity between chronic insomnia disorder and OSA is a clinically relevant condition that may confront practitioners with serious diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Current data, while still scarce, advocate an integrated and multidisciplinary approach that seems superior over the isolated treatment of each sleep disorder alone.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Comorbidity
Humans
Lung / physiopathology*
Respiration*
Risk Factors
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / diagnosis
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / epidemiology
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / physiopathology
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / therapy*
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / diagnosis
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / epidemiology
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / physiopathology
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / therapy*
Sleep*
Treatment Outcome