A sleep specialist and an endocrinologist discuss ways to engage patients in difficult conversations and shared decision-making to better manage the related conditions of sleep apnea and obesity.

Patients with OSA who initiate continuous positive airway pressure should have an initial follow-up within 1 to 3 weeks of starting CPAP.

As Paltrow also noted, mouth-taping “can help optimize sleep quality and improve breathing by promoting nasal-breathing,” ...