SLEEP Online Magazine - The SLEEP Blog - All about SLEEP, SLEEPING, and SLEEPINESS » drunk_driving http://sleepzine.com SLEEPzine is an online magazine about SLEEP, SLEEPING, and SLEEPINESS Fri, 25 May 2012 16:30:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Sleep Causes Car Accidents http://sleepzine.com/sleep-news/sleep-causes-car-accidents/ http://sleepzine.com/sleep-news/sleep-causes-car-accidents/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:54:58 +0000 Brian Yalung http://sleepzine.com/sleep-news/sleep-causes-car-accidents/ a

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Sleep Apnea Victims

We hear of people who have been into car accidents. The reasons have been enumerated and most of them point towards drunk driving and even falling asleep on the wheel. Apparently, these statistics don’t lie.

Much of these have been confirmed at a study made at Vancouver Costal Health. The study even included that you don’t have to be sleepy to incur such accidents. Sleep apnea patients get their share of contributing to the issue and worst of all; you are awake and facing accidents as they come.

“A lot of sleepiness-related crashes tend to be more severe… where you fall asleep at the wheel and you hit a tree or you cross the median and hit an on-coming car,” said study author Dr. Najib Ayas of the Vancouver Coastal Health and associate professor of medicine at UBC.

“Even if you do not fall asleep at the wheel, it has been shown that patients with sleep apnea or sleep deprivation have reduced motor function. It affects coordination, dis-tractability or vigilance.”

(Source) National Post

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