According to a recent study, children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Researchers found that children that were overweight and wet the bed had a higher incidence of OSA. On the other hand, being overweight and bed wetting were not found to be associated with each [...]
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Several presentations at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle this month stated that poor quality sleep is associated with increased risk of death. One of these studies, conducted at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, suggests that insomnia may be as hazardous as obstructive sleep apnea. “Insomnia [...] A recent study finds that stroke patients spend the majority of their sleep time on their backs which may contribute to development of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea is a common problem in which soft tissues in the back of throat repeatedly collapse during sleep causing breathing to stop for brief moments. Snoring and excessive [...] According to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine, people who have weight loss surgery should not expect it to cure their obstructive sleep apnea.Dr. David L. Greenburg of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, along with his team, analyzed twelve studies including over 340 patients who underwent a type of [...] Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have determined that people with obstructive sleep apnea, the most common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), are far more likely to die suddenly in their sleep from heart related problems than the general population. They also found that this is the opposite of the general population who [...] A recent study of 448 older women finds that those with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), such as obstructive sleep apnea, had a higher incidence of cognitive decline. The participants of the study, who averaged 83 years of age, underwent an overnight sleep study to determine if they had SDB. They were also given standard tests of [...] |
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