Do you ever feel tired after sleeping all night or sometimes suddenly awakened in the middle of the night? You may suffer a very serious sleep disorder called sleep apnea.
What Is Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by reduction and even cessation of breathing during sleep. This event usually occurs in adults and very rare in children. This condition usually associated with the disease experience of person itself.
These problems usually occur during sleep. People will experience sleep disturbance due to respiratory distress and reduced oxygen levels in the blood.
Obesity is one of the biggest reasons that cause sleep apnea. On the other hand, sleep apnea can also cause obesity and this may end up being a vicious circle with one causes the other. However, this condition does not exist in nearly 50 percent of people who suffer cause sleep apnea. People can be thin and still have this sleep disorder.
Respiratory distress and severity of these sleep disorders, measured by Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI), an index of severity that combines apneas and hypopneas. AHI show the severity of sleep apnea, including sleep disturbance and desaturations (a low level of oxygen in the blood). Another index used to measure sleep apnea is a respiratory disorder index (respiratory Defect Index).
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