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Let me tell you a story about sleep deprivation and truckers; A few years ago, I worked for a Telecoms provider in South Wales, and one of my workmates had recently given up working as a trucker. He’d regularly driven from Italy to Wales, sometimes 18-hour journeys or more. He looked like the classic high-risk [...]
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We know Sleep Apnea is associated with obesity. It’s also true that it can cause all sorts of complications. We can all be happy that there have been many breakthroughs in this area.
A good example of the progress that has been made is in Bariatric surgery, known as weight loss surgery. This is becoming a [...]
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Children who already suffer from breathing problems may have their condition worsened by weight-gain around their middle. A recent study conducted by researchers in the US has suggested that weight gain of this type can lead to an increased incidence of Sleep Apnea in the young.
At the moment, around two percent of children are assumed [...]
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Currently, approximately 20% of American adults are estimated to suffer from sleep Apnea. For the over-65s, this rises to over 40%! This is a shocking number, and what’s more, many people still do not know that they are sufferers from this condition. This, of course, is you are asleep when this happens. Unless you’re told [...]
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Here’s another medical development that may help people trying to combat Sleep Apnea and lose weight. The California-based company Vivus inc have been trialling an obesity drug called Qnexa, which has shown to lower blood pressure levels during sleep, increase weight loss over those trial subjects who were only given a placebo. There was also [...]
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