How many people have actually died from sleep apnea (statistics) ?
January 24th, 2013
What are the chances of a person with sleep apnea dying due to lack of oxygen?
Breathing disorders that occur during sleep include obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea. Less severe forms include snoring and upper airway resistance syndrome. The term sleep-disordered breathing is used to encompass all such disorders.
Please see the web pages for more details on Sleep apnea.
January 23rd, 2013 at 9:19 pm
it’s not so much that they die in their sleep.
but sleep apnea is associated with heart disease and
early death from other causes.
References :
January 23rd, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Breathing disorders that occur during sleep include obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea. Less severe forms include snoring and upper airway resistance syndrome. The term sleep-disordered breathing is used to encompass all such disorders.
Please see the web pages for more details on Sleep apnea.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000811.htm
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch215/ch215a.html