Sleep Apnea

One common cause of excessive daytime sleepiness is sleep apnea. Here’s why, and how you can get the right diagnosis and treatment.

Ever find yourself struggling to stay awake during the day or so tired that you can’t finish your work? If so, you could have excessive daytime sleepiness, which is commonly caused by sleep apnea.

While plenty of people experience the occasional bout of daytime fatigue — more than a third of Americans are not getting enough sleep, according to the ...

Sleep apnea doesn’t just interfere with your shut-eye; it can also increase your risk for heart disease, mood disorders, and more.

You already know about the importance of getting enough sleep, but if you have a condition called obstructive sleep apnea, you can snooze for more than 8 hours and still not wake up feeling refreshed.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which the muscles in the back of the throat fail to keep the airway open during sleep, causing ...

Snoring might not be simply harmless for people living with sleep apnea.

Misinformation persists about obstructive sleep apnea — when you stop breathing briefly and repeatedly during sleep — even though about 18 million Americans have the common condition, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

The number of people with sleep apnea is going up, found a May 2013 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Increases were from 14 to 55 percent over the past two decades, depending on age ...

Finding the right treatment, revamping your sleep routine, and adopting these healthy habits can help you fight fatigue.

There’s no substitute for a good night’s sleep, but if you have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), getting a good night’s sleep is easier said than done.

More than 18 million adults in the United States are estimated to have sleep apnea, according to National Sleep Foundation (NSF). Although the condition is common, it often goes unrecognized and undiagnosed, says Jose Mendez, MD, director of ...

A new strategy to treat central sleep apnea suggests implanting a device that acts like a pacemaker for the brain.

Over one-third of patients recovering from heart failure must then live with central sleep apnea, a frightening disorder where a patient’s brain sometimes fails to send the body the signal to breathe. Implanting a small device similar to a pacemaker, however, seems to work effectively to reset the brain so that it receives a constant reminder to send the “breathe” signal ...

Connection discovered between poor sleep habits and increased risk of hypertension.

Treating obstructive sleep apnea in patients who have daytime sleepiness as a symptom may have an additional benefit—a reduction in the risk of high blood pressure.

A pair of studies published in the May 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association point to a possible link between a reduction in hypertension and the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), but only one of the studies—an observational one—found ...

New research shows that people who stick to a treatment for sleep apnea end up looking more alert, youthful and attractive.

The most effective treatment for sleep apnea — continuous positive airway pressure (CNAP) therapy — requires users to wear a mask connected to a machine all night. Since this is burdensome, many people eventually stop CNAP, but a new finding suggesting that the therapy improves physical appearance may convince people to plug back in.

Researchers from the University of Michigan took ...

People with severe sleep apnea are at a higher risk for high blood pressure that does not respond to medication, according to preliminary new research.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can leave you feeling groggy and tired throughout the day, but it may also be responsible for up to nearly 60 percent of hard-to-treat hypertension, according to new preliminary research presented today at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine meeting in Baltimore.

Researchers looked at 284 people with sleep apnea and found that ...

Researcher calls troubled sleep an ‘uncalculated cost’ of America’s weight epidemic.

The widening American waistline may be feeding an epidemic of sleep apnea, potentially robbing millions of people of a good night’s rest, a new study suggests.

The research didn’t definitively link the rise in obesity to sleep apnea, and it only looked at 1,520 people, almost all white, in Wisconsin. But study author Paul Peppard believes the findings show a big spike in sleep apnea cases over the past two decades ...

American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening all children for snoring and polysomnography for those who regularly snore and have any associated symptoms such as snorting or gasping, daytime sleepiness, or labored breathing during sleep.

Children who frequently snore should be evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), according to a new guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Clinicians should evaluate kids who snore for co-occurring symptoms such as labored breathing during sleep or daytime sleepiness, and refer them for polysomnography, Carole ...