Sleep Apnea Can Shorten Your Life

Name: Sleep Apnea Can Shorten Your Life
Uploaded: 2024-12-02T13:00:57+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how untreated sleep apnea raises heart disease risk roughly 5-fold over 20 years and can cost you about 6.4 years of life. He…

2 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how untreated sleep apnea raises heart disease risk roughly 5-fold over 20 years and can cost you about 6.4 years of life. He describes an FDA-approved laser procedure that shrinks throat tissues to open the airway and reduce apnea.

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Approximately 5× increased risk over a 20-year period.

About 6.4 years.

FDA-approved initially for snoring.

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Sleep apnea is associated with a shorter lifespan primarily due to the increased risk of cardiovascular deaths. That being said, untreated obstruction sleep apnea 5x increased risk of heart disease over a 20 year period than somebody that does not have sleep apnea or somebody's treated their sleep apnea. Estimate is about 6.4 years if you get your score from 30 down below 15. We talked about the different treatments for sleep apnea. Let's talk about what they are. We do the night lays procedure. It doesn't burn things. It's FDA approved for what it does and it shrinks the tissues. Floor of the mouth shrinks, the tongue opens up the airway, lifts up the uvula, makes the airway bigger. This has been studied pretty extensively. First for snoring, it was FDA approved for snoring. And about five years ago doctors started studying for apnea which is a next step from snoring. And we found we can also treat sleep apnea, open the airway up.