Do you know the feeling that you unrestrained fall into the abyss, once you start to fall asleep? I'm sure many have experienced similar discomfort for yourself. Meanwhile, this is one of the symptoms of this terrible condition as apnea.
Recently Swedish scientists have conducted studies in which was monitoring 400 sleeping women aged 20 to 70 years. Studies have shown that up to 50% of women suffer from sleep apnea, in which there is a cessation of breathing for more than 10 seconds, at least 5 times an hour while they sleep.
The results, which was published in the European Journal of Respiratory health (European Respiratory Journal) was alarming. To the conducted research it was traditionally thought that such respiratory disorders mainly affect men.
"More and more people are faced with sleep apnoea syndrome, but nevertheless still this condition is considered to be a purely male privilege," says Nancy Collop, Director of the Center for Sleep Emory.-" However, if you visit my clinic, you will understand the absurdity of such an interpretation".
When a patient man or woman, suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the report of the study, he has problems with breathing, usually during the day is not observed. Disorders begin during sleep, when to be a relaxation of the larynx that may become an obstacle for fully air passage. Such situations may be repeated up to 80 times per hour of sleep, lasting from 10 to 60 seconds.
In the best case, sleep apnea can lead to headaches and fatigue in the worst death from a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke). In 2008 the journal "Sleep" published research data that showed that people with chronic diseases of the endocrine and cardiac systems has 3 times more likely to die from obstructive sleep apnea than people without these disorders.
Materials womenshealthmag.com
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