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.

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.