Could This Common Sleep Condition Be Affecting Your Sex Life?
Dr Lewis Ehrlich | whimn.com.au Read this before bed tonight. Sleep is arguably the most important part of your day. It not only helps to restore and maintain our immune, skeletal, muscular and nervous systems but maintains our mental performance, mood, memory and even sexual health. With the over-stimulating rigours of day-to-day activities, poor lifestyle choices (we see you third coffee), deadlines, and our obsession with technology (hello, Instagram), it seems harder and harder to clock eight hours. But beyond environmental factors, there’s a host of medical conditions that can affect our sleep. The most common? Obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep what now? Obstructive sleep …
Sleep Apnea
By BROOKE HILDEBRAND CLUBBS • OCT 18, 2017 | KRCU.org We often think of snoring as annoying or embarrassing, but we don’t usually think of it as deadly. However, it can be a symptom of sleep apnea, an involuntary cessation of breathing that occurs while the patient is asleep. Left untreated, sleep apnea can have serious and life-shortening consequences: high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, automobile accidents caused by falling asleep at the wheel, diabetes, and depression.. The University of Wisconsin found over an 18-year period, people with severe, untreated sleep apnea died a rate more than three times that of …
Study of the clinical and functional characteristics of asthmatic children with obstructive sleep apnea
DovePress.com Authors Nguyen-Hoang Y, Nguyen-Thi-Dieu T, Duong-Quy S Received 22 July 2017 Accepted for publication 3 September 2017 Published 12 October 2017 Volume 2017:10 Pages 285—292 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JAA.S147005 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single-blind Peer reviewers approved by Dr Amy Norman Peer reviewer comments 2 Editor who approved publication: Dr Amrita Dosanjh Yen Nguyen-Hoang,1 Thuy Nguyen-Thi-Dieu,2 Sy Duong-Quy3–5 1Department of Pediatrics, Phu Tho General Hospital, Phu Tho Province, 2Department of Pediatrics, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, 3Biomedical Research Center, Lam Dong Medical College, Dalat, Vietnam; 4Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing, Cochin Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; 5Division of Asthma and Immuno-Allergology, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Medical College, Hershey, PA, USA Background and objective: The …
4 Beyond snoring: Sleep apnea has dangerous consequences
Ginny Sugimoto, MD, Special to the Kitsap SunPublished 1:52 p.m. PT Oct. 11, 2017 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a major health problem with potentially dangerous consequences. For instance, truck drivers with this sleep disorder who did not get or did not follow treatment had a five times higher rate of preventable crashes than truckers without sleep apnea, according to researchers of a large-scale 2016 study of the U.S. trucking industry. Even for people with sleep apnea who don’t operate heavy machinery, this disorder can seriously compromise well-being, raising a person’s risk of irregular heart rate (atrial fibrillation), heart disease, …
World Heart Day: Know the signs of cardiac failure
IANS | Updated: Sep 28, 2017, 06.57 PM IST | EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com NEW DELHI: A light-headed feeling and increased heart rate are some of the signs of heart failure that one should not ignore, say experts. With World Heart Day, which falls on September 29, coming up, Sanjay Kumar, Advisor to Credihealth and Sonia Narang, Nutrition and Wellness Expert, Oriflame India, have listed some signs to detect heart failure. Light-headed feeling Since the heart is not functioning effectively, it is not able to pump enough blood to meet the needs of all the body tissues. This leads to a reduction in …
What if your partner drives you nuts in the bedroom? 13 signs you’re sleep incompatible
It seems sleep is the key to happiness, according to new research. But what if your partner drives you nuts in the bedroom, asks Shane Watson Shane Watson | September 27 2017 2:30 AM | Independent.ie I don’t know about you, but I was excited to discover, courtesy of the UK’s National Centre for Social Research, that money barely increases happiness but what does, more than anything else, is – wait for it – spending time in the bedroom. I know what you’re thinking. One word, beginning with ‘s’, the cure for everything. It’s just as our mothers have told us …
Are you a snorer? Your immune system is at risk, new study in Oman reveals
September 19, 2017 | 9:03 PM by Times News Service | TimesOfOman.com Muscat: Do you snore and find it difficult to get enough sleep? This can affect your immune system, a study by a team of Oman-based doctors has suggested. Snoring is a noticeable sign of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), according to Dr Elias Said, assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Sultan Qaboos University. Asked why a team of 11 health experts decided to conduct this research, he argued that there is insufficient information available on the changes in the immune system of Obstructive Sleep Apnea …
Positive airway pressure is the gold-standard for obstructive sleep apnea therapy, but an alternative therapy, when indicated, can literally be a lifesaver. By Sree Roy PHARMACOLOGICAL Medical Weight Loss Information source: Angela Fitch, MD, member of the board of trustees of the Obesity Medicine Association How it works: The more a patient weighs, the more the airway collapses from the excess weight, leading to obstruction. Excess abdominal weight can play a role in lung volumes so can increase the tendency for airway collapse. Losing weight helps to reduce the fat mass around the neck and abdomen and therefore decreases the propensity for airway …
Snoring Is an Annoyance Worth Taking More Seriously
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | August 30, 2017 | TheCut.com A couple of years ago, a poster in the New York City subway showed a woman lying awake in bed next to a man passed out with his mouth wide open. “He may not always be charming,” the caption read, “but he’s always your prince.” The ad was part of a Department of Health initiative to encourage couples to stay together in difficult times, but it might have instead brought back bad memories of nocturnal irritation. It’s hard to overstate just how frustrating it can be to toss and turn …
9 Signs You Have Sleep Apnea & May Not Realize It
By CARINA WOLFF | Aug 31, 2017 | Bustle.com If you’re someone who is constantly tired, you may blame your diet, your busy schedule, or some weird illness, but it might actually be coming from something much more straightforward. If you’re sleeping normal hours every night but not feeling rested, you may be exhibiting some signs you have sleep apnea and not even realize it. Sleep apnea is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep, according to the National Institutes of Health. These breathing pauses can last from …
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