A study has revealed that sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) or more popularly known as sleep apnoea carries an increased risk of cancer mortality. The study comes from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health where lead author Dr. F. Javier Neto showed a nearly five times higher incidence of cancer deaths in patients with severe SDB. The participants underwent overnight sleep studies that include polysomnography – an all-night recording of sleep and breathing – and many other tests at fo
How dangerous is snoring? Better yet, how do you classify your snoring? Technically it is impossible to distinguish snoring types but a study from the University of Chicago revealed that you can do so through urine testing. Researchers analyzed 90 children who had been referred to a clinic to be evaluated for experiencing breathing problems while sleeping, and 30 controls, and it was then discovered that children who had been diagnosed with dangerous snoring showed an increase in a number of proteins in their
Now here is something that is bound to be controversial as far as understanding sleep apnea. We all know that sleep apnea and snorers have been found to be a health hazard since it is associated with the heart and the breathing problems leading to snoring. But apparently, this study that was made in Britain claimed otherwise. In fact it can even prolong life which is really quite a shocking revelation.
Peretz Lavie, who carried out the research at the Lloyd Rigler Sleep Apnoea Research Laborato
Many of us tend are not aware that while we are sleeping. Among this is this common sleep disorder we hear as sleep apnoea. For the benefit of the people who are unaware of what sleep apnoea is, it is a sleeping disorder caused by abnormalities in breathing while a person is in this meditative stage.
We all tend to overlook this part of our everyday living. Usually, sleep disorders can be attributed to various reasons. Some of them can be traced towards stress, while others coming
