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Successful Sleep Apnea Therapy
When you temporarily stop breathing in your sleep, you’ve got it. Being sleepy during the day is the most common result. When you are too sleepy to stay awake at the wheel, the indirect result can be running your car off the road or into someone else.
Sleep apnea can also lead to memory changes, depression, and irritability. Sometimes it contributes to high b... Read more »
Expert & Community Posts
Treating Sleep Apnea
By David Mendosa , Health Expert...common and effective treatment for sleep apnea is the CPAP or continuous positive airway... Read more »
The Sleep Apnea-Diabetes Connection
By David Mendosa , Health Expert...“pillows system.” The most common device is the CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure... Read more »
Testing Sleep Apnea at Home
By David Mendosa , Health Expert...– using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device – has given me restful sleep for... Read more »
Diabetes and Travel Redux: Transportation Security Authority (TSA) and the Setting of Boundaries
By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert...equipment Augmentation devices Ostomy supplies CPAP machines and respirators Hearing aids... Read more »
Fay + Stackable Triggers = Migraines for Me!
By Teri Robert , Health Expert...apnea and has been trying to get used to using a CPAP machine. He's been tossing and turning,... Read more »
Health Guide
Headaches: Cluster: Risk Factors
...following midday to afternoon periods. Treating patients who have both disorders with a device called CPAP, which opens the airways, may help improve both conditions. [For more information, see... Read more »Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Oxygen-Replacement Therapy
...switch that allows delivery of oxygen if the battery has run down.Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP)Continuous positive airflow pressure (CPAP) supplies a steady stream of air through a... Read more »Acid Reflux Complications: Symptoms & Erosive Esophagitis
...such as sleeping on the back. Studies suggest that in such patients GERD can be markedly improved with CPAP, a device that opens the airways and is the standard treatment for severe sleep apnea. Read more »Sleep Apnea: Highlights
...also suffer from sleep apnea. Another 2005 NEJM study found that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment does not improve survival for patients with heart failure and central sleep... Read more »Sleep Apnea: Treatment
...during the night. There are a number of such devices available.Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP)The best treatment for severe obstructive and mixed sleep apnea is a system known as... Read more »Images
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Diabetes and Sleep Apnea
July 30, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? People who have both type 2 diabetes and the eye condition known as retinopathy might want to have a sleep test. According to a... Read summary »
Medicine for Alzheimers Patients: A Good Nights
June 18, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A long, uninterrupted night's sleep is good medicine for Alzheimer's patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). New research... Read summary »
Diabetes Linked to Sleep Apnea
June 18, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) Scientists need to spend more time studying the possible connection between type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. The International... Read summary »
Move Over Malaria!
May 05, 2008NEW ORLEANS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Malaria is a potentially deadly parasite that infects more than 300 million people worldwide every year. One... Read summary »
Study: Using CPAP after heart surgery may boost outcomes
May 13, 2009A new study suggests that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment after heart surgery may help prevent complications and cut hospital... Read summary »
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