Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

How common is sleep apnea and how to diagnose it?

5 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (Anne Truong MD, Nov 5, 2022) explaining that sleep apnea is common—particularly in people who are overweight or inactive—and outlining the basic diagnostic pathway: evaluation by a doctor, an overnight sleep study that records sleep and oxygen levels (and may use a camera), and treatment with CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) when diagnosed.

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The point I'm trying to take today is that sleep apnea is actually common, especially when you're overweight or especially if you don't exercise. Get evaluated for you go to the doctor, and the doctor order a sleep study test, and then you go there, you stay overnight, they have a camera and they also, you measure your oxygen level and they see how you sleep. And depending on the numbers that they see, you get a diagnosed sleep apnea or not. And most sleep apnea, you know, you get a machine called cpap, or continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine, that pushes oxygen into your nose, and so that way you get adequate oxygenation.