Sleep Apnea is A Silent Threat

Name: Sleep Apnea is A Silent Threat
Uploaded: 2025-04-01T16:00:47+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains obstructive sleep apnea: breathing stops for 10+ seconds, oxygen drops, and about 80% of cases go undiagnosed. It affects…

1 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains obstructive sleep apnea: breathing stops for 10+ seconds, oxygen drops, and about 80% of cases go undiagnosed. It affects roughly a third of women over 30 and half of men over 30, and links to heart failure, stroke, cancer, depression, and diabetes.

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About 80%

About 33% have some degree of sleep apnea

About 50% have some degree of sleep apnea

Congestive heart failure; stroke; certain cancers; depression; weight gain; diabetes

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Apnea is where you stop breathing for a period of time, usually 10 seconds or more, and the oxygen count goes down a little bit. This is quite common. About 80% of people that have sleep apnea, it's never even diagnosed. And the health implications are enormous. We know that about 33% of women over 30 have some degree of sleep apnea, and about 50% of men over 30 have some degree of sleep apnea. And the worse a sleep apnea is, the more significant what we call morbidities are associated with morbidities would be things such as developing congestive heart failure, stroke, certain cancers, depression, weight gain, diabetes. These are things that are associated with untreated sleep apnea.