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Sleep Apnea in Asians vs. Caucasians by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor I've always suspected that Asians are much more susceptible to obstructive sleep apnea... were similar, Chinese subjects had much more severe obstructive sleep apnea (35% vs. 25...
Sleep apnea and the eternal city by Edward G. Patient Expert . I am still hoping to bring together representatives from other sleep apnea patients groups for a parallel meeting... and new developments in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea - the World Congress on Sleep Apnea...
Finding a place for the surgical option to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Edward G. Patient Expert Discussions around the subject of a surgical option for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea are frequently passionate. One need only visit the ASAA's online support group to see the verbal fists fly...
5 Things You MUST Know About Sleep Apnea Surgery by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Sleep apnea surgery is one of the most controversial subjects in sleep medicine. There are heated debates within the sleep community as well as in online forums and support groups. Sleep apnea surgery...
Sleep Apnea Awareness Day(s) 2007 by Edward G. Patient Expert There are less than 30 days until March 8, Sleep Apnea Awareness Day during National Sleep Awareness Week. Of course, every day should be sleep apnea awareness day... we take the opportunity...
Sleep Apnea Awareness Day (SAAD) 2006 - reflections (part one) by Edward G. Patient Expert "National Sleep Apnea Awareness Day" events prior to my becoming the executive director. It was skipped... Apnea Awareness Day be "during National Sleep Awareness Week" (which it had been in prior years, but not...
When CPAP Doesn’t Help Your Sleep Apnea by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor Every few days, I hear from a frustrated patient with sleep apnea how they’re at wit’s end.... Many of these people have tried various masks, different machines, participated in online and live CPAP support groups...
UPPP Revisited for Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor than CPAP. Patients were recruited from a VA hospital with newly diagnosed sleep apnea and two groups... in sleep medicine for sleep apnea treatment. Despite study after study showing limited success rates...
The Best Pillow For Sleep Apnea? by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor At last night's Manhattan AWAKE group, someone asked about pillows and sleep apnea... of this. This is why the contour pillows can help people sleep better, by supporting the neck...
American Sleep Apnea Association signs onto Partnership letter by Edward G. Patient Expert Chronic Disease (PFCD), we thank you for your leadership in Congress and support of President Obama...-based coalition of hundreds of patient, provider, community, business, and labor groups, advocates...

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Sleep Apnea and Athletes
've spoken to people involved in weight loss groups, and many confess to either having sleep apnea or... of Medicine, this might well be the case. Sleep apnea affects about 4% of the general population. However... with the sleep disorder. Although slim people are sometimes afflicted with sleep apnea, the majority of sufferers...crap

Conquering Sleep Apnea
You can conquer sleep apnea. I know you can because I conquered a most severe form of it. And I... treatment for overweight people who have sleep apnea. About half of all of us who have diabetes also suffer from sleep apnea. While not all of us who have diabetes suffer from it, everyone with sleep apnea suffers...crap

Sleep Apnea Affects the Heart Health of Men and Women
the women into groups. Some of the women with sleep apnea were treated with CPAP. CPAP stands... without sleep apnea were used as a control group to compare results. The women were follower for more than seven... Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder where there are abnormal stops (interruptions) in breathing or...crap

Successful Sleep Apnea Therapy
If you have diabetes, it’s likely that you have sleep apnea too. Almost half of us have sleep apnea, and most of us don’t know it. When you temporarily stop breathing in your sleep, you’ve got it..., the indirect result can be running your car off the road or into someone else. Sleep apnea can also lead to...crap

Losing Weight to Reverse Sleep Apnea
with those in the control group. And the prevalence of severe sleep apnea in the weight loss arm of the program was half of that of those in the control group. If you are overweight and have sleep apnea, you may have thought that losing weight... Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the most common complications of diabetes...crap

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
We have already discussed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the adult, but have not spent much time on OSA in the pediatric age group, which despite also causing breathing to stop during sleep....        In my next blog we will continue on the topic of childhood sleep apnea. Allen Blaivas, M.D....crap

9/3/07 #1 - Untreated sleep apnea a Migraine trigger?
Full Question: Could you tell if untreated sleep apnea could be the source of migraines? I did a sleep test last year and the results were borderline (no apnea per se but not far from it... of sleep can be a Migraine trigger for some people. That would include sleep apnea. That doesn...crap

It Was Like Being Reborn
. John also has sleep apnea.   He discovered he had the disorder about ten years ago when someone suggested, after hearing him snoring and gasping for breath, that he read an article on sleep apnea. Up till... that he had the same symptoms from which his father had suffered. He now believes that sleep apnea contributed to his father...crap

Has there ever been studies with Apnea being the precurser to Diabetes among other serious issues?
I have had severe sleep apnea since I was a young child.  It involves my throat relaxing... thirties.  My apnea was not addressed or diagnosed until my early 40's.  In spite of my health life style... that the apnea, happening over sucha long period of time, has been the major cause of the development...crap

The decline in Alzheimer's Disease has already begun.
Let's suppose that sleep apnea (SA) is the cause of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), as I contend... obstruction (apnea) during sleep. They won't get AD, whereas their untreated next door neighbors with SA....   The bottom line: If you have sleep apnea, treat it now.         DrNoSA...crap