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Sleep apnea mask treatment fails to curb heart risks
upi ^ | 08/30/2016 | E.J. Mundell, HealthDay News

Posted on 08/30/2016 1:39:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 08/30/2016 1:39:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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How many of them are overweight?


2 posted on 08/30/2016 1:41:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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The machine helps... better night’s sleep with the device than without it.


3 posted on 08/30/2016 1:44:36 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: BenLurkin

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


4 posted on 08/30/2016 1:44:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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I'd gather...most OSA patients are overweight to begin with. Therefore....many are OHS'ers too. And just CPAP/BIPAP alone can't cure their cardiac issues.

Not to mention non-compliance.....

5 posted on 08/30/2016 1:45:52 PM PDT by Osage Orange (You hurt my family...you better watch your six.)
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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.


6 posted on 08/30/2016 1:45:54 PM PDT by sparklite2
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This wont keep insurance companies from denying coverage based on Sleep apnea. I cant get any insurance except short term coverage...


7 posted on 08/30/2016 1:47:09 PM PDT by RummyChick ("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
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To: BenLurkin

The greatest source of supply of CPAP machines are in men’s top shelf of his closet.


8 posted on 08/30/2016 1:50:07 PM PDT by shortstop (Why is the worst Pope of my lifetime serving at the same time as the worst President of my lifetime?)
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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.


9 posted on 08/30/2016 1:50:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: NEMDF; dfwgator

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 :)


10 posted on 08/30/2016 1:51:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

The C-PAP machine keeps you breathing while you sleep. It doesn’t treat heart disease.


11 posted on 08/30/2016 1:52:18 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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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.


12 posted on 08/30/2016 1:53:31 PM PDT by RummyChick ("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
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To: NEMDF

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.


13 posted on 08/30/2016 1:53:46 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: dp0622

I cant wear it. My compromise is breathe right strips.


14 posted on 08/30/2016 1:55:09 PM PDT by RummyChick ("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
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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.


15 posted on 08/30/2016 1:56:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

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! ;-)


16 posted on 08/30/2016 1:56:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Putin made me post this!~)
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To: NEMDF

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.


17 posted on 08/30/2016 1:56:54 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: dp0622

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


18 posted on 08/30/2016 1:58:45 PM PDT by RummyChick ("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
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To: NEMDF

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.


19 posted on 08/30/2016 1:59:28 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Never been a problem. I’ve trained myself to hold my breath while sleeping.


20 posted on 08/30/2016 2:00:22 PM PDT by upchuck (2 Timothy 3:13: But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.)
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