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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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A study undertaken at the University of Chicago has found a way to diagnose Sleep Apnea in children, through an analysis of their urine. This was a study conducted on 90 children who had been referred with suspected breathing disorders during sleep, and 30 children who did not snore, who acted as controls in the [...]
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Sleep Apnea causes all sorts of worrying symptoms, of which snoring can be the least serious. Sufferers can wake up feeling breathless, struggling for air. They can be exhausted during the day, the result of not getting proper sleep. Now, it seems that there has been a large increase in such cases, and a lot [...]
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We came across a question on an agony aunt’s page a while back, from a man whose wife fell out of bed a lot, and who was worried she was trying to get away from him! Whilst this can sound funny, it probably isn’t for this poor man, or his wife! If I was being [...]
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This just in from the bulletin of really obvious news- taking recreational drugs can cause health problems. Strangely, however, there is some relevance for snoring. Ecstasy use has now been linked to Sleep Apnea, and other respiratory problems. As we know, Sleep Apnea causes a drop in oxygen levels in the blood, and has been [...]
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