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Kember AJ, Elangainesan P, Ferraro ZM, Jones C, Hobson SR. Common sleep disorders in pregnancy: a review. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1235252. [PMID: 37671402 PMCID: PMC10475609 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1235252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
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In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of common sleep disorders during pregnancy, including their characterization, prevalence, risk factors, and possible contribution to maternal and fetal outcomes. We conducted a quasi-systematic literature search of the MEDLINE database and identified 744 studies from 1991 through 2021, inclusive, that met our inclusion criteria. We synthesized the existing literature on sleep disorders during pregnancy and highlighted controversies, research gaps, and needed clinical developments. Our review covers a range of sleep disorders, including insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm disorders. We discuss the prevalence of these disorders in pregnancy and their potential impact on maternal and fetal health outcomes. We also explore the relationship between sleep disorders, pre-pregnancy comorbidities such as obesity, and pregnancy-related conditions such as gestational diabetes mellitus and preeclampsia. In addition to summarizing the existing literature on sleep disorders during pregnancy, we also highlight opportunities for further research in this area. We suggest that future studies should strive to employ validated and objective measurement tools for sleep disorders and prioritize utilization of longitudinal methods with participant follow-up through postpartum, mid-life, menopause, and beyond. We also put forward investigation into the impact of circadian rhythm disruption on reproductive physiology and early pregnancy outcomes as an area of important work. Overall, our review provides valuable insights on sleep and reproduction and into common sleep disorders during pregnancy and their potential impact on maternal and fetal health outcomes.
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- Allan J. Kember
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Shiphrah Biomedical Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Medical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Medical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Shaun MMA, Nizum MWR, Shuvo MA, Fayeza F, Faruk MO, Alam MF, Ahmed MS, Zaman S, Mali SK, Hawlader MDH. Association between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in Northern Rural Bangladesh: a community-based cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry 2022; 22:201. [PMID: 35303810 PMCID: PMC8933943 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03839-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Adequate good quality of sleep is essential for physical fitness during pregnancy as well as being a depressive symptoms-free mind. However, there is little evidence of the relationship between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in Bangladesh. This study aimed to find the association between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in northern rural Bangladesh. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out from May 2021 to June 2021 among 481 pregnant women tested positive in the pregnancy test of Jaldhaka and Dimla Upazila of Nilphamari district, Rangpur Division. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire including socio-demographic conditions, sleep quality, and depressive symptoms, comprising the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Patient Health Questionnaire- 9 (PHQ-9). RESULTS 8.94% of the women had depressive symptoms, whereas 38.88% of the participants were bad sleepers. However, women who had depressive symptoms [Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.55; 95% CI 1.33-4.9] and educational qualifications above 10 years [AOR = 0.60; 95% CI: 0.39-0.92] were associated with poor sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS A higher percentage of pregnant women had poor sleep quality, whereas depressive symptoms and academic background of the participants were significantly associated with poor sleep quality. Ensuring adequate sleep time and better quality could be helpful to prevent depressive symptoms.
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- Md Mahbubul Alam Shaun
- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Community Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University (DIU), Dhaka, 1207 Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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Barghouthi T, Lemley R, Figurelle M, Bushnell C. Epidemiology of neurologic disease in pregnancy. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2020; 171:119-141. [PMID: 32736746 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64239-4.00006-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Many neurologic diseases in women are influenced by the physiologic and hormonal changes of pregnancy, and pregnancy itself poses challenges in both treatment and evaluation of these conditions. Some diseases, such as epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, have a high enough prevalence in the young female population to support robust epidemiologic data while many other neurologic diseases, such as specific myopathies and muscular dystrophies, have a low prevalence, with data limited to case reports and small case series. This chapter features epidemiologic information regarding a breadth of neurologic conditions, including stroke, epilepsy, demyelinating disease, peripheral neuropathies, migraine, sleep-disordered breathing, and meningioma, in women in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum stages.
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- Tamara Barghouthi
- Department of Neurology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
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Garbazza C, Hackethal S, Riccardi S, Cajochen C, Cicolin A, D'Agostino A, Cirignotta F, Manconi M. Polysomnographic features of pregnancy: A systematic review. Sleep Med Rev 2019; 50:101249. [PMID: 31896508 DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2019.101249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Symptoms of sleep disturbances are common among pregnant women and generally worsen across gestation. Pregnancy-related sleep disorders are not only associated with a poor quality of life of the affected mothers, but also with adverse perinatal outcomes, including perinatal depression, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and preterm birth. The current knowledge about the impact of sleep disorders during pregnancy largely derives from the results of sleep surveys conducted in various populations. However, the number of studies examining changes in objective sleep variables during pregnancy via polysomnography has progressively increased in recent years. Here we systematically reviewed the polysomnographic studies available in the literature with the aim to describe the sleep pattern and to identify possible markers of sleep disruption in pregnant women. Based on our analysis, subjective worsening of sleep quality across gestation is related to objective changes in sleep macrostructure, which become particularly evident in the third trimester. Pregnancy per se does not represent an independent risk factor for developing major polysomnography-assessed sleep disorders in otherwise healthy women. However, in women presenting predisposing factors, such as obesity or hypertension, physiological changes occurring during pregnancy may contribute to the onset of pathological conditions, especially sleep-disordered breathing, which must be carefully considered.
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- Corrado Garbazza
- Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital of Lugano (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, Lugano, CH-6903, Switzerland; Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital of Lugano (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, Lugano, CH-6903, Switzerland
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- Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital of Lugano (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, Lugano, CH-6903, Switzerland
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- Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Neuroscience Department, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza - Molinette, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital of Lugano (EOC), Via Tesserete 46, Lugano, CH-6903, Switzerland
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Almendros I, Martínez-Ros P, Farré N, Rubio-Zaragoza M, Torres M, Gutiérrez-Bautista ÁJ, Carrillo-Poveda JM, Sopena-Juncosa JJ, Gozal D, Gonzalez-Bulnes A, Farré R. Placental oxygen transfer reduces hypoxia-reoxygenation swings in fetal blood in a sheep model of gestational sleep apnea. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2019; 127:745-752. [PMID: 31369330 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00303.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), characterized by events of hypoxia-reoxygenation, is highly prevalent in pregnancy, negatively affecting the gestation process and particularly the fetus. Whether the consequences of OSA for the fetus and offspring are mainly caused by systemic alterations in the mother or by a direct effect of intermittent hypoxia in the fetus is unknown. In fact, how apnea-induced hypoxemic swings in OSA are transmitted across the placenta remains to be investigated. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis, based on a theoretical background on the damping effect of oxygen transfer in the placenta, that oxygen partial pressure (Po2) swings resulting from obstructive apneas mimicking OSA are mitigated in the fetal circulation. To this end, four anesthetized ewes close to term pregnancy were subjected to obstructive apneas consisting of 25-s airway obstructions. Real-time Po2 was measured in the maternal carotid artery and in the umbilical vein with fast-response fiber-optic oxygen sensors. The amplitudes of Po2 swings in the umbilical vein were considerably smaller [3.1 ± 1.0 vs. 21.0 ± 6.1 mmHg (mean ± SE); P < 0.05]. Corresponding estimated swings in fetal and maternal oxyhemoglobin saturation tracked Po2 swings. This study provides novel insights into fetal oxygenation in a model of gestational OSA and highlights the importance of further understanding the impact of sleep-disordered breathing on fetal and offspring development.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study in an airway obstruction sheep model of gestational sleep apnea provides novel data on how swings in oxygen partial pressure (Po2) translate from maternal to fetal blood. Real-time simultaneous measurement of Po2 in maternal artery and in umbilical vein shows that placenta transfer attenuates the magnitude of oxygenation swings. These data prompt further investigation of the extent to which maternal apneas could induce similar direct oxidative stress in fetal and maternal tissues.
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- Isaac Almendros
- Unitat de Biofísica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Animal Production and Health Department, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Cardiology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.,Heart Diseases Biomedical Research Group, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioregenerative Medicine and Applied Surgery Research Group, Animal Medicine and Surgery Department, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain.,García Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain.,Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Anaesthesia Unit, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Animal Medicine and Surgery Department, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain
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- Bioregenerative Medicine and Applied Surgery Research Group, Animal Medicine and Surgery Department, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain.,García Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioregenerative Medicine and Applied Surgery Research Group, Animal Medicine and Surgery Department, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain.,García Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Child Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Reproduction, Deputy Directorate General of Research and Technology-Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Madrid, Spain
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- Unitat de Biofísica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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Rimpilä V, Jernman R, Lassila K, Uotila J, Huhtala H, Mäenpää J, Polo O. Upper-airway flow limitation and transcutaneous carbon dioxide during sleep in normal pregnancy. Sleep Med 2017; 36:67-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Revised: 05/08/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Central sleep apnea in pregnant women with sleep disordered breathing. Sleep Breath 2015; 19:835-40. [DOI: 10.1007/s11325-014-1099-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Revised: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Jomeen J, Martin CR. Assessment and relationship of sleep quality to depression in early pregnancy. J Reprod Infant Psychol 2007. [DOI: 10.1080/02646830601117308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Jomeen J. The importance of assessing psychological status during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period as a multidimensional construct: A literature review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cein.2005.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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