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Bilgay Izci Balserak

Associate professor, UIC
Verified email at uic.edu
Cited by 2568

Sleep-disordered breathing and pregnancy: potential mechanisms and evidence for maternal and fetal morbidity

B Izci-Balserak, GW Pien - Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Sleep-disordered breathing and adverse maternal–fetal outcomes such as preeclampsia
and gestational diabetes share a number of mechanistic pathways, and growing data in …

Short sleep duration and hyperglycemia in pregnancy: aggregate and individual patient data meta-analysis

…, T Anothaisintawee, SJ Herring, BI Balserak… - Sleep medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Short sleep duration has been linked to maternal hyperglycemia. Systematic review and
meta-analysis were performed to evaluate the relationship between sleep duration and …

Sleep disordered breathing in pregnancy

BI Balserak - Breathe, 2015 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Key points Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is common and the severity increases as
pregnancy progresses. Frequent snoring, older age and high pre-pregnancy body mass index (>…

Sleep duration versus sleep insufficiency as predictors of cardiometabolic health outcomes

NG Altman, B Izci-Balserak, E Schopfer, N Jackson… - Sleep medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between
sleep insufficiency and sleep duration, particularly regarding negative cardiometabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Social and behavioral determinants of perceived insufficient sleep

MA Grandner, NJ Jackson, B Izci-Balserak… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Insufficient sleep is associated with cardiometabolic disease and poor health. However, few
studies have assessed its determinants in a nationally representative sample. Data from the …

Sleep-disordered breathing and daytime napping are associated with maternal hyperglycemia

B Izci Balserak, N Jackson, SA Ratcliffe, AI Pack… - Sleep and …, 2013 - Springer
Objectives Sleep disturbances in pregnancy may impair glucose mechanism. This study aimed
to examine associations of sleep-disordered breathing, sleep, and nap duration with 1-h …

Changes in sleep characteristics and breathing parameters during sleep in early and late pregnancy

B Izci-Balserak, BT Keenan, C Corbitt… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - jcsm.aasm.org
Study Objectives: Few studies have objectively evaluated sleep characteristics during
pregnancy or investigated the relationship between altered spectral electroencephalogram (EEG) …

The relationship and potential mechanistic pathways between sleep disturbances and maternal hyperglycemia

B Izci-Balserak, GW Pien - Current diabetes reports, 2014 - Springer
This paper reviews recent work investigating the influence of sleep disturbances on maternal
hyperglycemia, particularly gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The incidence and …

A screening algorithm for obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy

B Izci-Balserak, B Zhu, I Gurubhagavatula… - Annals of the …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common in pregnancy and associated with
maternal and fetal complications. Early detection of OSA may have important implications for …

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of the sleep health index

…, Y Wang, J Yuan, KL Knutson, D Zhu, B Izci-Balserak… - Sleep Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To generate the Chinese Sleep Health Index (SHI-C) in Mandarin with cross-cultural
adaptations and test its psychometric properties. Methods This study used a cross-…