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Sleep Disorders and the Nose: What Is the Evidence Base?

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The impact of nasal obstruction on sleep and on patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is still a matter of great debate. This might be related to the conflicting evidence of nasal treatments aiming at a restorative sleep on the one hand and its influence on the severity of OSA on the other hand.

Nonetheless, conservative and surgical nasal treatments result in a significant improvement of the quality of sleep. Patients experience a more restorative sleep with huge impact on several quality-of-life parameters.

In contrast, the impact of nasal treatments on the severity of OSA is limited, leading to the conclusion that the nose does not seem to play a very significant role in the pathogenesis of OSA.

However, preliminary data suggest that improvement of nasal breathing may facilitate or improve nasal ventilation therapy.

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Verse, T., Müller, S. (2023). Sleep Disorders and the Nose: What Is the Evidence Base?. In: Swift, A.C., Carrie, S., de Souza, C. (eds) Contemporary Rhinology: Science and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28690-2_10

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