«Children with
obstructive sleep apnea are fidgeting and not able to stay on task,
because they're doing anything they can to stay awake,» says first author Seockhoon Chung, M.D., Ph.D., who began the research as a U-M research fellow but is now associate professor at Asan Medical Center in South Korea.
People with
obstructive sleep apnea or other
sleep fragmentation disorders experience these problems, even if they spend enough time in bed,
because their
sleep quality is poor and interrupted too frequently to reach deep, restorative levels.