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Not a nice story, this- a lorry driver who fell asleep at the wheel and killed a 55 year-old woman was diagnosed as suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea. He went free (and rightly so), but the warning is a stark one. The driver, Robert Earnshaw (42) was found innocent of all charges of dangerous driving, [...]
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More and more children are overweight, obese, and consequently at risk of a number of conditions including heart disease, asthma, sleep apnea, and diabetes. This trend has been noticed for a while, and has started to be reflected in the worrying number of surgeries which are being performed on young children to help correct these [...]
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Suffering from sleepiness as a result of sleep apnea? A recent trial conducted in Hattiesburg, USA, has suggested that the medication Armodanifil, also known as Nuvigil, can help to alleviate this problem. One of the problems with snoring, sleep apnea or disturbed sleep is that not only is it unpleasant for partners, it can also [...]
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So, the scientific consensus continues to pile up around snoring and Sleep Apnea, giving more and more weight to the view that you really shouldn’t just ignore your snoring, or your partner’s snoring. The November’s Journal of the American College of Cardiology brings with it new findings about the risk of nocturnal cardiac arrhythmia in [...]
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Most people would agree that living with a snorer can be a living hell but trust me there’s snoring and then there’s SNORING. Recently an English women has had her snoring recorded as one of the highest (noisiest) in the UK. When you consider that a chain saw will register at about 110 decibels this [...]
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