Sleep Apnea Facts
A sleep disorder that can turn fatal, sleep apnea is the last step after you go beyond snoring heavily. Though officially still considered a disease that affects adults, you may be amazed to know how many kids are being diagnosed with it. Sedentary lifestyle adds to increasing epidemic of weight gain leading to 2 out of every 4 kid being obese.
Sleep Apnea is broadly classified into Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Central Sleep Apnea. The distinction is done on the basis of the symptoms and both are equally serious afflictions. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) affects at least 5% of men and about 3% women each year around the world. Basically the symptoms of apnea are commonly seen in snorers. If you are suffering from frequent interruptions in normal breathing patterns while asleep, suffer from medium to heavy snoring and often wake up gasping for breath, it is time to seek the advise of a sleep disorder specialist as simultaneously you are affected by sleep deprivation.
Apnea most often leads to sleep deprivation which exhibits symptoms of low alertness and poor concentration, poor productivity and performance at work, behavioral changes, mood swings and heightened irritability. Snoring, sleep deprivation and sleep apnea are interrelated and as soon as you start snoring, you develop sleep deprivation and that leads to a host of illnesses.
Most of the people suffering with diabetes, hypertension are light sleepers or snore at night which leads to a sleep deprivation. Snoring prevents proper breathing patterns to be implemented by the body leading to low oxygen levels in the brain which indirectly creates fatigue, memory loss, poor concentration. A recent research has yielded surprising results about road accidents. It states that over 5 in 8 vehicle accidents on road are caused by drivers suffering from sleep deprivation and sleep disorders.
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