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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.
In a recent article in the New York Times, various experts...
. Interestingly, untreated obstructive sleep apnea has been shown to result in lowered brain tissue volume... 
the use of sleeping pills and alcohol because these can relax the muscles of the throat and increase periods of apnea...
Apnea means breathing is stopped or reduced. Sleep apnea is a chronic disorder...
, and how does it specifically cause or aggravate obstructive sleep apnea?
When Allergies Lead to Something Worse... too surprisingly, tongue scalloping is predictive of having apneas, hypopneas, or oxygen drops in almost 90...
had sleep apnea with the male to female ratio of 2.6:1 (holding pretty true to the numbers published by Dr. Terry Young, et. al in 1993).
The analysis of the hospital admissions (over the period 1999 to 2004...
before their periods. I had one woman tell me that she gets sore throat whenever she gets wet or if it rains. Hormonal changes (especially progesterone) during monthly periods causes relaxation of the tongue muscles...
for sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), even if their symptoms are minimal, according to a study... to a flashing light for prolonged periods of time at repeated intervals, were 49 percent lower in the CPAP...
slots are termed as 'apnea' and can last for more than 10 seconds throughout the sleeping period... take this syndrome as a usual disorder. Many people who suffer from sleep apnea are not aware...
Is it possible that Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) causes Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)? I believe so. As a retired clinical neurologist and former patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, I have a special interest...
, which requires that the patients use CPAP at least 70% of the time over a 30 day period, for at least 4 hours... use CPAP.
From what I’ve seen with CPAP compliance studies or even with sleep apnea surgery studies... 
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