BARCELONA, Spain — Follow-up phone calls to patients newly trained on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices increased overall compliance by 10%, and resulted in as much as an hour more of ...

Healthcare professionals may recommend continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for people living with obstructive sleep apnea. A CPAP machine delivers a steady flow of pressurized air ...

Research suggests that CPAP may improve headaches in some people with sleep apnea. But some people may develop headaches if their CPAP mask is too tight, if they develop nasal congestion, or if CPAP ...

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A CPAP machine provides continuous air pressure to keep the airways open during sleep. Doctors may prescribe CPAP therapy to people who experience symptoms of sleep apnea. A continuous positive airway ...

CPAP — continuous positive airway pressure — machines help people with sleep apnea breathe more regularly through the night. These machines are also sometimes used by first responders to help people ...

A study of people with obstructive sleep apnea suggests that high CPAP pressures may explain why the machines do not lower a patient's risk of heart disease, which is about two to three times higher ...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Prescription sleep aids may do little to improve the use of continuous positive airway pressure, of CPAP, among patients with sleep apnea, says a U.S. study. Patients with ...