If you feel that you are the only person suffering from sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, guess again. Just when you think it is just you or a couple of people suffering from this dreaded sleep issue, sleep apnea has been growing in numbers from recent years and the continuously increasing.

Combine all the people who are suffering from this sleep epidemic and you may finally see the walking dead in the flesh. You may say that it is an overstatement or vague way of putting the whole thing into perspective but unless sleep apnea is given the proper studies and results, chances are this problem will grow out of proportions.

“In the past, obesity-hypoventilation was pretty unusual. Now, in our in-patient hospital service, we usually have at least one or two out of 20 people admitted for that,” he says.

Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of this sleep disorder.

It’s the result of muscles in the upper airway, around the base of the tongue becoming so lax, they collapse and close off all airflow.

(Source) Edmonton Journal

Tags: sleep, sleep_apnea, sleep_disorders, suffering_from, walking_dead

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 11:04 am and is filed under Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Apnea.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.