Posted on 08/30/2016 1:39:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
- The nighttime breathing difficulties of obstructive sleep apnea have long been linked to an increase in cardiovascular risks.
However, a new study throws confusion into that link. While treatment with CPAP did lower sleep apnea symptoms, it did nothing to lower users' long-term odds for heart attack, stroke or heart-related death.
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McEvoy believes that, for one thing, prior observational studies may have "overestimated" the link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular outcomes. If the link is weaker than was thought, then curbing sleep apnea might not bring about as big a heart benefit as hoped, he reasoned.
Another factor might be that many participants could only use CPAP about three hours a night -- perhaps not long enough to bring about a benefit to the heart, McEvoy said. That rate of compliance does reflect real-world use, however, he added.
McEvoy pointed out that the study participants who were able to use the treatment even a bit longer -- four or more hours -- did show "a trend toward a reduction in stroke."
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How many of them are overweight?
The machine helps... better night’s sleep with the device than without it.
Think about this: how often do you hear about people, not of advanced age, passing away in their sleep? I just do not think it happens with any great frequency. It is a great market for sleep studies, C-Pap machines, lots of follow-up appointments, etc., but I am not convinced that people die of sleep apnea. JMHO
Not to mention non-compliance.....
I’m not overweight. But I don’t think I have apnea either.
My cardiologist found a small blip on one morning of a two-week PITA I endured with a portable heart monitor.
So now I have to do a home monitor for sleep apnea, but it is, thankfully, only overnight. In my case, I think this is all a waste of time.
This wont keep insurance companies from denying coverage based on Sleep apnea. I cant get any insurance except short term coverage...
The greatest source of supply of CPAP machines are in men’s top shelf of his closet.
In all my years of attending the Department of Labor’s National Veterans’ Training Institute in Denver, I never saw a student without a sleep apnea machine in their room, including myself.
ah yes, overweight. That LAST refuge of people to pick on :)
I’ll make you happy DF. I’m a fat ##### and it affects my sleep just as much as the brain damage (though i was a fat #### before that and slept like a baby, so i dont know).
How can it not? 100 plus pounds weighing on your chest.
NEMDF...I had a test, said my breathing stopped 200 time a night without CPAP and zero with.
Only thing is i was still a complete insomniac before a new med when i took the test. So I slept maybe one hour.
The results said I slept SIX!!
Moneymaking scam anybody?!?!
IT’s the most mother ######ing uncomfortable thing to wear and hear that i’d prefer a heart attack :)
The C-PAP machine keeps you breathing while you sleep. It doesn’t treat heart disease.
I had something like that.
After wearing a monitor...and After being put in the hospital for a week with all kinds of tests they finally did a tilt table test .
I didnt believe it would have any effect on me. Next thing I know I am flat on my back after my heart stopped beating. Wild disorder.. vasodepressor syncope.
Maybe not frequent, but Reggie White died from this at 42. Interestingly, I had heard him give a talk about it not long before that.
I cant wear it. My compromise is breathe right strips.
What are those? Do they help??
I have Central Apnea which means my central nervous system just forgets to tell me to breath a lot of times a night.
Now I don’t have to feel bad about never getting a CPAP.
I think my stress level just dropped about .02% with this news,
so I’ve got that going for me! ;-)
The marketing/industry involved in this medical specialty is staggering.
They showed links to it developing into congestive heart failure, irregular heart beat and stroke.
It opens up my passage ways. Strips on the nose.. I breathe easier. I dont wake up gasping for air but my heart may still stop beating..dont know how to tell if it does
While I agree with you that the whole sleep apnea thing may well be a racket, the early deaths are not about dying in one’s sleep. They are (allegedly) about dying of heart-related problems (i.e. heart attack or stroke). Nothing was ever specified about WHEN during the day or night one dies of these problems, only that they died earlier...assuming that the whole thing isn’t a scam to begin with.
Never been a problem. I’ve trained myself to hold my breath while sleeping.
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