Health Risks of Severe Sleep Apnea

Name: Health Risks of Severe Sleep Apnea
Uploaded: 2024-04-01T04:00:33+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Health Risks of Severe Sleep…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Health Risks of Severe Sleep Apnea" containing a spoken segment (single speaker/presenter) that explains a 20-year Wisconsin study showing that untreated severe sleep apnea was associated with a threefold increase in mortality among adults aged ~30–60. The speaker emphasizes the importance of diagnosing and treating severe sleep apnea because it affects morbidity, mortality, and survivability. Metadata: created_time 2024-04-01T04:00:33+00:00.

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20 years

Wisconsin

Three times as likely (3× higher)

Ages 30 to 60

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Then there's something we call mortality. Mortality is how long you will live. A 20 year study done in Wisconsin followed people. They first randomly selected people and they tested to see whether or not they had sleep apnea or not in a sleep clinic. And they followed them for 20 years. And the people that had severe sleep apnea were three times as likely to die if untreated, than the people that did not have sleep apnea. So it's really critical that if you have sleep apnea, particularly severe, that you know about it and you treat it because it affects your morbidity, mortality, your disease and your survivability. The study for the Wisconsin day was ages 30 to 60, so these were people relatively young.