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What is Sleep Apnea?
Sleep Apnea is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.
Breathing pauses can last for a few seconds to minutes. They often occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound.
If left untreated Sleep Apnea can:
- Increase the risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and diabetes.
- Increase the risk for or worsen heart failure.
- Make irregular heartbeats more likely.
- Increase the chance of having work- related or driving accidents.
Lifestyle changes, mouthpieces, surgery, and/or breathing devices can successfully treat sleep apnea in many people.
Source:http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/SleepApnea/SleepApnea_WhatIs.html
