How Sleep Apnea Affects Your Lifespan 😨😫

Name: How Sleep Apnea Affects Your Lifespan 😨😫
Uploaded: 2024-02-23T14:00:12+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short video by Dr. Charles Mok arguing that sleep apnea shortens lifespan. The speaker cites an NIH‑sponsored Wisconsin cohort (baseline in the 1980s…

23 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Short video by Dr. Charles Mok arguing that sleep apnea shortens lifespan. The speaker cites an NIH‑sponsored Wisconsin cohort (baseline in the 1980s, followed ~20 years) that measured apnea severity (none/mild/moderate/severe) and later found that people with severe sleep apnea were about three times more likely to have died than people without apnea after matching for factors like age, smoking, and obesity. The speaker also notes personal authorship of books on sleep apnea and regenerative medicine.

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Something I'm very excited about is treating apnea. I've written a book on apnea. You can get our books. I've written several books on regenerative medicine. But sleep apnea shortens our life. So there was a study done in Wisconsin in 1980 1988, and the National Institutes of Health sponsored it. We didn't know if sleep apnea should be treated back then, so we did study where we followed people for 20 years. First they measured their sleep apnea score. They gave mild meteor severe. 20 years. Later they went back to look at death rates. And people with severe sleep apnea were three times more likely to be dead than people with no apnea when they matched for other factors such as their age, smoking status, obesity, etc.