Sunday, May 10, 2009
Morning Headache is not a Consistent Sleep Apnea Symptom
Sleep apnea patients undergo several types of health effects. Many a times these health impacts are even undiagnosed. Sleep apnea symptoms include several indicators by and large. Morning headache is one such problem that sleep apnea patients quite often report. Research has now established that the morning headache may not be necessarily associated with the sleep apnea all the time. In other terms the morning headache is not among the consistent sleep apnea symptoms.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sleep Apnea Information
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by a blockage of the airway, usually when the soft tissue in the rear of the throat collapses and closes during sleep. In central sleep apnea, the airway is not actually blocked; however the brain fails to signal the muscles to breathe. Mixed apnea, as the name implies, is a combination of the other two. With each apnea event, the brain briefly arouses the person with sleep apnea in order for them to resume breathing, but accordingly sleep is extremely fragmented and of very poor quality.
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Scientist Confessed Fabrication of Data in Sleep Study
Fabrication and falsification of data has again been tried to mislead human minds and this time it was attempted by a former assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Robert Fogel.
Robert Fogel spoiled the study data and cooked it in a manner that desired results could come out in certification. The study was conducted on sleep apnea among the severely obese patients.
Results of this research study were published in an internationally reputed journal “Sleep” in the year 2003 and were titled as “anatomic and physiologic predictors of apnea severity in morbidly obese subjects”. The journal has now retracted the publication.
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