San Francisco, CA — (SBWIRE) — 06/17/2013 – According to a new long-term study, sleep apnea has been found to increase the risk of cardiac death. This supports what doctors have long thought. The study, spearheaded by Dr. Apoor Gami, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical Group out of Elmhurst, Illinois, explains [...]
Melbourne: Patients with epilepsy may have an increased incidence of sleep-disordered breathing, a latest Australian study has found. The link between epilepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, a condition where patients stop breathing at night is being taken as an interesting find. Terry O`Brien of Royal Melbourne Hospital said there were some evidence from other studies [...]
Swollen tonsils and adenoids are a major cause of sleep apnea in children, and while removing them did not improve attention, memory or learning for these kids, it did help them with sleep, behavior and quality of life, a new study finds. Sleep apnea is a condition that causes abnormal pauses in breathing during [...]
Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 According to a new article, recent studies have depicted a nearly 30% increase in heart attacks and death in individuals who suffer from a condition known as sleep apnea. The term ‘sleep apnea’ covers a wide variety of sleep related breathing disorders, which are categorized into multiple classifications [...]
Lean people with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) are more likely to have certain biomarkers of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a new study shows. The study, led by Dr. Ricardo S. Osorio of New York University, contributes to a sparse but growing body of evidence that the two conditions are related. Follow us Study [...]
Asthma may be a contributing factor to obstructive sleep apnea, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin. Using data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers studied 773 participants who joined the study in 1988 when they were between the ages of 30 and 60. [...]
By Randy DotingaHealthDay Reporter SUNDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) — Sleep apnea, the condition that robs sufferers of deep sleep by endlessly and subconsciously waking them up, becomes more common as people age. Now, a small new study raises the possibility that it may somehow cause — or be caused by — Alzheimer’s disease. Don’t [...]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KTIV) – “Sleep apnea” is a disorder that can not only cost you a good night’s sleep. It can also cost you your health. A “sleep study” could help doctors diagnose a problem that could have an impact on your heart. So, KTIV’s Matt Breen spent a night in Mercy’s Sleep Lab. [...]
Share on: Facebook del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Twitter DARIEN, IL – A new study suggests that regularity of bedtime prior to initiation of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is an important factor that may influence treatment compliance in adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Results show that bedtime variability was a significant predictor of CPAP [...]
HOUSTON, April 25, 2013 – /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Losing sleep is more than an inconvenience. It can also become dangerous to your health and mental well-being. However, people don’t always recognize the signs of a sleep disorder. They can live with the side effects for years, and they may not know how to correct the problem [...]