Introduction to Sleep Apnea

Obstructive Sleep Apnea is highly prevalent in the population compared to its counterparts. As the name implies it is caused due to an obstruction in the free flow of the air. During sleep, there is not enough air from nose to lungs as the windpipe is blocked or collapsed briefly during breathing, due to the relaxation of muscles.

The cause might be due to tonsils, overweight of the person, smaller airway, respiratory infection, improper facial structure, worn out airway muscles, obstruction in the nasal passages, reduction in blood oxygen saturation and sometimes the structure of the jaw.  It can prevail in people who take drugs too.  So little time is spent in deep sleep that the brain briefly raises to activity when they resume breathing, resulting in sleep deprivation. This causes tiredness, weakness and in advanced cases stroke, asthma and sometimes depression
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Sleep apnea news on the Web

Lake City hospital installs lab to test for sleep disorders LAKE CITY Lake City Community Hospital recently installed the Carolina Sleep Lab, a two-bed sleep lab used to perform tests for sleep disorders.

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When sheep can’t help you sleep It may not seem surprising, in a society where energy drinks, mocha-frappuccinos and 12-hour workdays are so highly valued, that North Americans aren’t getting much sleep.

Cleveland Medical Devices gets $60K from Cuyahoga County loan fund Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. has been awarded $60,000 from the Cuyahoga County New Product Development and Entrepreneurship Loan Fund to step up commercialization of its SleepView device for sleep apnea screening at home. CleveMed has a lineup of wireless diagnostic sleep systems, including SleepView, which is the smallest and lightest home sleep monitor with an American [...]

Graymark Healthcare Continues to Advance Strategy to Become Nation's Top Sleep Medicine Provider Graymark Healthcare announced that it has added two new sleep centers in Texas and Nebraska with the signing of agreements to provide on-site services to Goodall-Witcher Medical Center in Central Texas and Henderson Community Hospital in Nebraska.

More spouses sleeping in separate beds Relationship experts are troubled by a new marriage trend: More couples are starting to sleep in separate beds, even separate bedrooms.

Ask Dr. Gott: How much sleep is enough? Dear Dr. Gott: My wife and I go to bed at about the same time every night. I never get a full seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, and most often awaken in less than five hours. I try to get back to sleep, but it seems to take hours to accomplish this.

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N. La. transplant finds home with children, 4-H When the LSU AgCenter Extension in New Iberia opened a position to head up the local 4-H program, Natchitoches Parish native Josh Fredieu took the opportunity to get back to what he loved as a child.

Brown has court date on public drunk charge BILOXI - State transportation official Butch Brown will be in municipal court in Biloxi on Sept. 13 to face a charge of public intoxication. A separate court of disorderly conduct was dropped at the request of officials with the Beau Rivage Casino.