Sleep Apnea Increases Mortality Risk

They went to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and they pulled workers in these state records that were 30 to 60 years old. They found is that about 25% of men, or 1 out of 4 men, had obstructive sleep apnea, and about 1 out of 10 women had obstructive sleep apnea. And they put the study to sleep for 20 years. They went back in 2008 and looked at the death records. What happened? What they found was that people that had a score over 30 lower severe sleep apnea compared to score under 5, no sleep apnea, no clinically significant sleep apnea, were three times more likely to be dead that the causes were cardiovascular death. Now, keep in mind they were 30 to 60. That means 20 years later, they were 50 to 80. And what's the most common cause of death? Cardiovascular disease.