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Jose Loredo, MD

Director, Sleep Medicine Center at UCSD Medical Center Hillcrest and VA Medical Center
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

CLINICAL AND INVESTIGATIVE INTERESTS:

  • Treatment and investigation of patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
  • Specifically, I am interested in the investigation of the role of chemoreceptors in hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea.
  • Currently involved in a study of obstructive sleep apnea in the Hispanic population.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Loredo JS, Clausen JL, Ancoli-Israel S, Dimsdale JE. Night-to-night arousal variability and interscorer reliability of arousal measurements. Sleep 1999;22(7):916-20.
  2. Loredo JS, Ziegler MG, Ancoli-Israel S, Clausen JL, Dimsdale JE. Relationship of arousals from sleep to sympathetic nervous system activity and blood pressure in obstructive sleep apnea. Chest 1999;116(3):655-9.
  3. Loredo JS, Ancoli-Israel S, Dimsdale JE. Effect of continuous positive airway pressure vs placebo continuous positive airway pressure on sleep quality in obstructive sleep apnea. Chest 1999; 116(6):1545-1549.
  4. Dimsdale JE, Loredo JS, Profant J. Effect of CPAP on blood pressure: a placebo trial. Hypertension 2000; 35:144-147.
  5. Loredo JS, Clausen JL, Nelesen RA, Ancoli-Israel S, Ziegler MG, Dimsdale JE. Obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension: are peripheral chemoreceptors involved? Med Hypotheses 2001 Jan;56(1):17-19.
  6. Ziegler MG, Mills PJ, Loredo JS, Ancoli-Israel S, Dimsdale JE. Effect of continuous positive airway pressure and placebo treatment on sympathetic nervous activity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Chest. 2001 Sep;120(3):887-93.
  7. Loredo JS, Ancoli-Israel S, Dimsdale JE. Sleep quality and blood pressure dipping in obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Hypertens. 2001 Sep;14(9 Pt 1):887-92.
  8.  Bao X, Nelesen RA, Loredo J, Dimsdale JE, Ziegler MG. Blood pressure variability in obstructive sleep apnea: role of sympathetic nervous activity and effect of continuous positive airway pressure. Blood Press Monit. 2002 Dec; 7(6):301-7.

Board Certified:

  • Internal Medicine
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Sleep Medicine

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