Sleep Apnea Triples Death Risk

Name: Sleep Apnea Triples Death Risk
Uploaded: 2025-08-06T16:01:34+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A brief YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok (uploaded 2025-08-06) summarizes an NIH-commissioned 1988 sleep-apnea study at the University of…

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok (uploaded 2025-08-06) summarizes an NIH-commissioned 1988 sleep-apnea study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that tested healthy adults aged 30–60, assigned apnea scores, and returned for a 20-year (2008) mortality follow-up. The speaker reports that individuals with a severe apnea score (>30) had about three times the risk of death at 20 years, even after adjusting for other diseases.

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1988

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

University of Wisconsin–Madison

30 to 60 years old

>30

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So back in 1988, the National Institutes of Health commissioned a study in Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, to figure out what's this apnea study. So they measured healthy adults 30 to 60 years old, and they did an apnea test on them and they gave them a score. And then 20 years later, in 2008, they came back and they looked at the death rates of people and correlated to their sleep scores. And what they found is that just even when adjusting for other diseases, people that had a sleep score over 30, which we call severe, were three times as likely to be dead on the 20 year follow up.