Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease - Death Rate Triples for Sleep Apnea Patients
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| Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease - Death Rate Triples for Sleep Apnea Patients |
Some disturbing discoveries have surfaced while conducting ongoing research on sleep apnea related issues. The study is spread over
a span of 18 years on common people explains that chronic sufferers of sleep
apnea has a three-fold death rate as compared to people having no sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a state of frequent occurrences of breathing
halts throughout sleeping are calculated by the quantity of complete or incomplete
breaks in the breathing process every hour. In a report of August, SLEEP issue,
the research personals discovered that the death risk increases with the number
of increasing breath breaks.
This result from the study is derived by Mr. Terry Young, who
is a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the Madison University of Wisconsin.
The professor Young stated that they have been doing the
research on sleep apnea side effects in the University of Wisconsin
for over 10 years and have found relations between several diseases such as
depression, stroke, hypertension, and sleep apnea.
The professor stated that regardless of the above research,
the new discoveries show alarming and grave wellbeing risks associated with
sleep apnea, according to which chronic sleep apnea can lead to heart failure.
He continued that the number of deaths due to heart failure
were high in untreated serious sleep apnea patients being reported. Further, it
has been reported in the research spread over more than 18 years
that the sufferers who had to breathe halts more than 30 times in an hour were
more prone to cardiovascular deaths in comparison to less than 5 breathing
pauses sufferers.
On the contrary, the positive thing is that sufferers, who
were using the CPAP machine performed far better survival rate. Whereas, the risk
of death due to heart failure shot from three to five times in the patients who
were neglecting the use of CPAP therapy.
According to the March 2008 research, the death reports of
the state was observed and it came out that 19% (12 people) having serious
sleep apnea died as compared to the death of 4% (46 people) having no sleep
apnea symptoms.
Later on, the contributors having severe apnea were reached
out and health threats associated with the condition were explained to them and
they were suggested to seek professional treatment without any further
delay. Despite the warning, the majority of people fell short of receiving the
professional treatment for their syndrome.
Additionally, their key therapists might have been ignorant, of the requirement for extra assessment of their condition of breathing breaks,
infrequent and loud snoring.
Dr. Ruth Benca, M.D. “Wisconsin Sleep Clinic” stated that
people, who had been taking sleep apnea and snoring lightly, would be shocked
by the latest findings.
"The silver lining is that treatment for sleep apnea
seems to help decrease the risk of death and serious complications."
Nevertheless, the good thing is that cardiovascularmortality and severe consequences of sleep apnea can be minimized by the proper
treatment.
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