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Big Midsection May Up Your Risk of Dying Suddenly by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Here’s an interesting study showing that having a large midsection significantly increases your risk of dying from sudden cardiac death. Not too surprising, since being ov ... Read on »
High Blood Pressure In Pregnancy Raises Child’s Heart Risk by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Having high blood pressure during pregnancy (also called preeclampsia) was found to increase the offspring’s risk of having high blood pressure in childhood and young adul ... Read on »
CPAP May Prevent High Blood Pressure by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Here are results from two European studies that suggest that treating obstructive sleep apnea with CPAP may prevent the onset of high blood pressure. One observational stu ... Read on »
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Can Raise Your Risk of Cancer by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Up until recently, there were only weak associations between obstructive sleep apnea cancer. Now, a new large-scale population study reported that having severe untreated ... Read on »
Dark Circles and Sleep (Guest Post) by Snoozester .. Patient Expert For those who have trouble sleeping, the paranoia of looking noticeably tired increases. People suffering periods of bad sleep worry that they will develop dark ci ... Read on »
Did Lenin Die of Sleep Apnea? by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor In my periodic quest to find famous people and celebrities who might have obstructive sleep apnea, I came across someone who died over 88 years ago:  Vladimir Lenin. ... Read on »
My Interview With Sleep-Apnea-Guide.com by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor I was recently interviewed by the staff at Sleep-Apnea-Guide.com , which is a great resource for people with obstructive sleep apnea. It was a very in-depth interview wher ... Read on »
Expert Interview: Dr. Ted Belfor on “Developing the Face and The Airway with a Removable... by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Please join me on Tuesday, May 29th, at 8PM Eastern for my next Expert Interview. This month, Dr. Ted Belfor will give a presentation on “Developing the Face and The Air ... Read on »
Why Hypertension Is More Lethal For African Americans by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Blacks with high blood pressure were found to be twice as likely to suffer sudden cardiac death compared to other racial groups. A study  published in HeartRhythm found th ... Read on »
Obese Women More Likely to Have Children with Autism by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Here’s a not-to-surprising study showing that obese women are at higher risk of having children with autism. Obese women were 67% more likely to have an autistic child, an ... Read on »