Sentences with phrase «developed sleep apnea»

Federal regulators say the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County failed to amend a reactor operator's license when the man developed sleep apnea.

Recently Journal Sleep showed that children who have siblings with obstructive sleep apnea disorder are at increased risk of developing sleep apnea.

But women can develop sleep apnea, too; their risk is greater after they reach menopause.

Middle - aged men are more likely to develop sleep apnea than women.

Obesity increased a transplant patient's risk of developing sleep apnea.

Not exact matches

But BresoDX, a self - administered home test for sleep apnea, developed by Toronto - based company Bresotec, is likely to complete the study portion of the process in early 2016.

Breastfed babies develop a larger nasal space, which can lessen problems with snoring and sleep apnea later in life.

Getting ahead of sleep apnea and taking preventative measures will lessen your risk of developing insidious diseases.

Through her own personal experiences in dealing with her son and a variety of medical conditions that impacted his sleep, including reflux, colic, asthma, allergies, and sleep apnea, Sara developed a foundation of knowledge on the science of sleep and on sleep training options.

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

People with sleep apnea, for example, a condition in which people repeatedly stop breathing at night, are at risk for developing mild cognitive impairment an average of 10 years earlier than people without the sleep disorder.

It is very important, however, that people with sleep apnea do not infer that they will necessarily develop cancer.»

Evidence suggests that adults with a large neck circumference are more likely to develop obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), especially males.

Clinical investigators at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) have developed a new screening tool to help diagnose obstructive sleep apnea in children.

They found that pneumonia was more likely to develop in the people with sleep apnea than in the control group (638 [9.36 %] v. 2119 [7.77 %]-RRB-.

Research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered that patients who suffer from both Type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea are at greater risk of developing a condition that leads to blindness within an average period of less than four years.

Carley developed the idea that dronabinol might be useful in treating sleep apnea more than 15 years ago.

Many years ago clinicians began noticing that patients with sleep apnea were at an increased risk of developing complications after operations.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may put elderly people at greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

«Sleep Apnea may increase risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.»

McKenna and his colleagues suggest one kind of «glitch» involved in SIDS may be the result of these integrating neural tracks developing at different rates, leading to a sleeping infant experiencing sleep apnea, or an involuntary pause in breathing, that is not stopped by either sub-system.

Although sleep apnea and other conditions can make for low - quality sleep, which can then also lead to heart disease, Mehra suggests that there is ample data that show people who began as normal weight and healthy but did not get enough sleep, over time developed worse health outcomes.

Preliminary data from two studies suggest that mild - to - moderate obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension and diabetes.

«Similarly, moderate sleep apnea was associated with increased risk of developing diabetes by almost 3 times compared to individuals without sleep apnea.»

Dr. Joshua H. Atkins and Dr. Jeff E. Mandel of the University of Pennsylvania and their colleagues have developed a new «ramp control» anesthetic technique for putting patients to sleep briefly - just enough to show the «obstructive anatomy» responsible for sleep apnea.

Obstructive sleep apnea often develops when people age or put on extra weight.

January 20, 2015 Drug - development grants focus on sleep apnea, asthma research Two research teams based at the University of Chicago have received prestigious grants from the National Institutes of Health to develop novel medications to treat sleep apnea and asthma.

Both types of fat greatly increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.

I developed Type II Diabetese and had high cholesterol, Asthma, Sleep Apnea, and was a cookie away from a heart attack.

Having sleep apnea, a condition where breathing is interrupted during sleep, really increases the risk of developing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

What's more, exercisers may reduce their risk for developing troublesome sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome.

If researchers can develop a pill to activate those neurotransmitters to keep throat muscles toned, in theory, airway tissues wouldn't collapse and sleep apnea could be lessened or even avoided.