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Español. Sleep apnea is a common condition in which your breathing stops and restarts many times while you sleep. This can prevent your body from getting enough oxygen. You may want to talk to your healthcare provider about sleep apnea if someone tells you that you snore or gasp during sleep, or if you experience other symptoms of poor-quality ...
Central sleep apnea is caused by problems with the way your brain controls your breathing while you sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by conditions that block airflow through your upper airways during sleep. For example, your tongue may fall backward and block your airway. Causes of sleep apnea. The figure shows how your tongue and soft ...
After controlling for similarities among patients, including COVID-19 severity, age, sex, race and ethnicity, and underlying medical conditions, researchers found adults with obstructive sleep apnea in N3C, the largest study, were 75% more likely to experience long COVID. For adults in PCORnet, the increased odds of having long COVID was 12%.
A breathing device, such as a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, is the most common treatment for sleep apnea. A CPAP machine provides constant air pressure throughout your upper airways to keep them open and help you breathe while you sleep. Such breathing devices often work best when they are paired with healthy lifestyle ...
CHAT enrolled 464 children ages 5-9 years with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome from seven sleep centers across the United States and randomly assigned them into two groups. One received adenoid and tonsil surgery within a month after enrollment, while the other received supportive medical care and careful monitoring, or watchful waiting.
The NHLBI supports research to understand how sleep apnea affects the health and well-being of women. The NHLBI partnered with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to fund the NuMoM2B study. This study found that sleep deficiency and mild sleep apnea in pregnant women increase the risk of ...
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, also known as Pickwickian syndrome, is a breathing disorder that affects some people who have been diagnosed with obesity. Normally, you exhale carbon dioxide, a by-product of breaking down food for energy. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome causes you to have too much carbon dioxide and too little oxygen in your ...
The workshop, entitled “Heterogeneity and Sex/Gender Differences in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Personalized Approaches to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Implementation” is designed to explore the intricacies of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the diverse aspects of its diagnosis and treatment.
Yet, as NHLBI-funded studies have found, sleep apnea can have severe health consequences over time if left untreated. The disorder has been associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, diabetes, and glaucoma. And new findings indicate that pregnant women with sleep apnea have a higher chance of ...
Sleep apnea occurs in an estimated 30-50% of children with Down syndrome and between 70 and 100% of adults with the syndrome. According to Aruna Natarajan, M.D., Ph.D., a program director in the NHLBI Division of Lung Diseases, one reason that people with Down syndrome have such a high incidence of sleep apnea could be related to the anatomy of ...