Sleep Apnea - Symptoms and Types

Sleep Apnea Connection to Stroke and Death Explained by New Study (Senior Journal) Jan. 6, 2009 –Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain’s ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself, according to a new study.

What Is The Connection Between Sleep Apnea, Stroke And Death? (Science Daily) Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain's ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself. The findings may help explain why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep.

Study helps explain connection between sleep apnea, stroke and death (PhysOrg) Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain's ability to modulate these changes and prevent damage to itself, according to a new study published by The American Physiological Society. The findings may help explain why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep.

Factors Other Than Central Sleep Apnea May Contribute To Poor Sleep Quality In Heart-Failure Patients (Medical News Today) A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that the frequent arousals from sleep that occur in heart failure patients with central sleep apnea (CSA) may reflect the presence of another underlying arousal disorder rather than being a defensive mechanism to terminate apneas.

Diabetics face sleep apnea risk (Detroit Free Press) Here's a wake-up call to the millions of American men and women with Type 2 diabetes: Snoring at night or nodding off during the day may be symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three diabetics.

St. Mary’s opens sleep disorder center (St. Louis Business Journal) SSM St. Mary’s Health Center has opened a new facility to treat people who suffer from daytime sleepiness, insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome and other sleep disorders.

Study Says Lack of Sleep Adds Plaque to Heart (ThirdAge) MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- People in their 30s and 40s who got less sleep at night were more likely to develop the early buildup of plaque in the arteries of their heart , according to a new study.

CPAP's Future in an iPod World (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Metis Laboratories announces the PapWear(TM) system, a paradigm shift away from the current sleep apnea systems marketed by Respironics (PHG), ResMed (RMD), Fisher Paykel Healthcare (FPH), et al.

Going to the 'sleep nerd'; Technologist helps diagnose sleep disorders (Casper Star-Tribune) GILLETTE -- Mark Beil has received a family heirloom that he could do without. They call it "the Beil Nose."