The sleep disordered breathing can have serious health consequences

“Apnea” is a Greek word for bad breath, or not breathing. Thus, sleep apnea is the restriction of breathing during sleep. Sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of stroke, silent cerebral infarction and heart attacks. According to a study half of all women from 20 to 70 years of age suffer a mild to severe sleep apnea. Among women with hypertension or obesity were 80 to 84 per cent who suffer from sleep apnea.

How many women are affected by sleep disordered?

 A recent Swedish study to apnea shows how often severe insomnia such as sleep apnea are happened.
The study, which was conducted on 400 women aged of 20 to 70 years of age, found that half of them suffered from mild to severe sleep apnea.

Among women with hypertension and obesity, the numbers were even higher – 80 to 84 percent of them had sleep apnea.

These results are significant because sleep apnea is associated with a higher risk of stroke, heart attack and silence stroke. Each apnea event was accompanied by a minimum 10 second respite, with a decrease in the oxygen content in the blood. Women who have an average of five or more of these events during an hour of sleep, suffer from sleep apnea.

The study, which was funded by the Swedish “cardiopulmonary society”, showed that Apnea was more commonly found in the older age groups.

Among women aged 20 to 44 had a quarter with sleep disorders, compared to 56 percent of women aged 45 to 54 years and 75 percent of women in aged 55 to 70 years.

Severe sleep apnea, which involves more than 30 breathing disorders per hour, was far less common. Only 4.6 percent of women aged in 45 to 54 years and 14 percent of women aged in 55 to 70 years old showed serious illness cases. Among women of all ages with hypertension, 14 percent had severe sleep apnea and of the women who were obese, 19 percent had severe apnea.

What is Sleep Apnea?

There are three types of sleep apnea, as they are described in the medical literature:

1. Central Apnea: this refers generally to the inability of your diaphragm and chest wall in order to breathe properly.

2. Obstructive sleep Apnea: shows an obstruction of your airway, which begins in the nose and ends in the lungs.

3.  Mixed Apnea:  is a combination of both.

Obstructive sleep apnea is made of the frequent collapse of the airway during sleep. This means that the breathing has stopped again and again for 10 seconds. Those People with a severe form of the disease at least 30 pauses in breathing per hour.

Not only do these breathing interruptions disrupt sleep so you are unusually feel tired the next day, but also the reducing amount of oxygen in the blood which the function of internal organs affecting or to aggravate.

Signs and Symptoms of Sleep Apnea.

Increased head posture during sleep.

A sign that you have trouble breathing, is when you are taking an increased posture of the head while sleeping. The more your body tends together with the head forward then worse your apnea is, because if you bend your head forward, is that a compensation for the lack of space behind the back of the tongue.

Tossing and turning in his sleep.

Another common sign that may indicate sleep apnea is frequent tossing and turning at night. This is because if you lie down on your back, gravity pulls your jaw and your tongue backwards so that this hinders breathing. By twisting and turning your body has the opportunity to let you breathe.

Snoring.

Snoring is a further indication that you have sleep apnea. A simple text that you can perform to check whether you can breathe properly:

• Stand with your back against a wall, touching of wall with the heels, buttocks, shoulder blades and head.
• Say “Hello” to swallow, and then keep breathing.

When you can talk in this position quickly and conveniently, swallowing and breathing, then the structure of your mouth and throat in order.

If you can not perform this exercise , your breathing is probably hampered what may be exacerbated if you want to sleep lying.

Of course, you can carry out in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis and a professional evaluation in a sleep laboratory.

After these studies shows how long your REM phases a summary of the results you can see then, how well or how badly you really slept that night.

This information will help you to carry out the fine-tuning of your sleep program and perform effective interventions.