A recent news article states: "Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with behavior problems in children with asthma, researchers have found."
But behavior problems are often linked to any type of sleep disordered breathing.
It was discovered that approximately a third of children with asthma also had sleep disordered breathing resulting from some form of sleep disorders. Those children had significantly worse behavior than those who had no sleep problems. They also had a lower...
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