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Sleep Apnea
Hope HaddadMarch 16, 2010
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What is Sleep Apnea?• Sleep apnea is a common disorder in which you have one or more
pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.• Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They
often occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound.
• Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep 3 or more nights each week. You often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep when your breathing pauses or becomes shallow.
• This results in poor sleep quality that makes you tired during the day. Sleep apnea is one of the leading causes of excessive daytime sleepiness.
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SLEEP APNEA VIDEOhttp://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/SleepApnea/SleepApnea_
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Untreated Sleep Apnea Can:
• Increase the risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and diabetes
• Increase the risk for or worsen heart failure
• Make irregular heartbeats more likely
• Increase the chance of having work-related or driving accidents
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What Can Help?
• Lifestyle changes• mouthpieces• Surgery• breathing devices
• can successfully treat sleep apnea in many people.
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SITED WEBSITES
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/SleepApnea/SleepApnea_WhatIs.html