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Florence Cardinal

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posted 12/12/2008, comments (2)

Improve Your Life with CPAP

Sleep apnea is a destroyer. In fact, if not treated and gotten under control, it can be deadly. But long before that it destroys your health, nibbles away at your life style, ruins relationships, causes poor performance at work and eventually takes away your ability to earn a decent living. In short, it sucks all the enjoyment out of your day to... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/27/2008, comment (1)

It Was Like Being Reborn

An Interview with John McEuen, founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (This interview is from 2001) "MR. BOJANGLES I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you in worn out shoes With silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants, the old soft shoe He jumped so high, he jumped so high, Then he lightly touched down" The Nitty Gritty... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/25/2008, comment (1)

Even Mild Sleep Apnea Can Indicate Heart Disease

We all know those people who are walking around and clearly have sleep apnea. Many of them are overweight, especially centrally, and they snore loudly and clearly have periods where they stop breathing while sleeping, and they complain that even though they seem to sleep through the night they feel sleep deprived, and they can suddenly nap... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/15/2008, comment (1)

Treating Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes the cessation of breathing many times during the night. That is, someone suffering from sleep apnea will periodically gasp or momentarily stop breathing during the night. This, in turn, causes sleep deprivation and puts a strain on the entire body. Sleep apnea can lead to heart attack,... Read more Chevron

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Obstructive sleep apnea: More on CPAP

Let's continue with some of the treatments for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We left off talking about continuous positive airway pressure, better known as CPAP. As we mentioned, CPAP, with the air pressure it pushes out, acts as an air splint to keep the airway from collapsing during sleep. We also touched on the fact that many patients have... Read more Chevron

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