The Silent Threat Of Sleep Apnea

Name: The Silent Threat Of Sleep Apnea
Uploaded: 2024-04-01T00:01:23+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short health-talk excerpt defining sleep apnea (breathing pauses of ~10 seconds or more with oxygen drops), stating high rates of undiagnosed cases…

1 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A short health-talk excerpt defining sleep apnea (breathing pauses of ~10 seconds or more with oxygen drops), stating high rates of undiagnosed cases, and providing prevalence estimates (≈33% of women over 30; ≈50% of men over 30). The speaker emphasizes that untreated sleep apnea is associated with serious morbidities including congestive heart failure, stroke, some cancers, depression, weight gain, and diabetes.

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Usually 10 seconds or more.

About 80%.

About 33%.

About 50%.

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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 the sleep apnea is, the more significant, what we call morbidities are associated. 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.