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Sleep Apnea

Stroke Risk For People With Sleep Apnea

by Carol Bartram on April 6, 2011

Sleep Apnea has been linked with many potential health issues but it looks like there’s yet another one to add to the list. Sleep Apnea is characterised usually by snoring followed by brief periods / pauses in breathing before the sufferer then resumes normal breathing. A new study has found that people who suffer from [...]

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Do You Get More Than 7 Hours Of Sleep?

by Carol Bartram on March 7, 2011

Two new studies have shown that over a third of us don’t get at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night. These studies were large with over 70,000 people surveyed in 2009. The study highlighted four potentially serious sleep patterns which included Lack of sleep (not enough) The dreaded snoring Falling asleep during the [...]

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Sleep Apnea Home Diagnosis Kit

by Carol Bartram on November 22, 2010

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea usually requires many visits to the doctor and sometimes an overnight stay in a sleep clinic. Expensive and disruptive to all concerned. Now though a company in Manhatten has invented a device which can be used at home which is said to be able to diagnose Sleep Apnea without the patient having [...]

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We tend to talk a lot about how damaging snoring and related conditions like Sleep Apnea can be for a sufferer’s health, but let’s not forget that it can also have a major effect on a sufferer’s partner. It is estimated that someone who is sleeping with a loud snorer will, on average, lose the [...]

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It’s becoming more and more widely understood that the body is a series of interconnected systems, and that when something goes wrong with one of these systems, then this can cause further complications and side-effects in another. It’s also true that as Obstructive Sleep Apnea is more and more fully understood, and that knowledge permeates [...]

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