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: A short YouTube health presentation by Dr. Charles Mok that summarizes a 20-year Wisconsin cohort study of adults (ages ~30–60). The speaker reports that…

1 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube health presentation by Dr. Charles Mok that summarizes a 20-year Wisconsin cohort study of adults (ages ~30–60). The speaker reports that untreated severe sleep apnea was associated with about a threefold increase in mortality compared with people without sleep apnea, and urges diagnosis and treatment because severe sleep apnea affects morbidity, mortality, and survivability.

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20 years

Ages 30 to 60

About three times as likely to die (threefold increase) compared to people without sleep apnea

Dr. Charles Mok

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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.