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2. Sleep apnea: causes, symptoms, treatments, and how it ... - AOL

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   "This metric helps your doctor determine the severity of your sleep apnea and can help guide treatment choices." Obstructive sleep apnea can be categorized as mild, moderate or severe. Mild sleep ...

3. What to Do If You Have Sleep Apnea - AOL

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   The man had sleep apnea—his airway was obstructed, which interrupted breathing at night, waking him repeatedly. But he refused Sullivan’s recommendation for surgery to create an opening in the ...

4. FDA approves weight-loss drug to treat sleep apnea - AOL

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   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a weight-loss drug to help sleep apnea, becoming the first drug to treat the disorder affecting millions of Americans. On Friday, the federal agency ...

5. Sleep apnea - Wikipedia

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   The condition, also called treatment-emergent central apnea, is generally detected when obstructive sleep apnea is treated with CPAP and central sleep apnea emerges. [18] The exact mechanism of the loss of central respiratory drive during sleep in OSA is unknown but is most likely related to incorrect settings of the CPAP treatment and other ...

6. Obstructive sleep apnea - Wikipedia

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   Without treatment, the sleep deprivation and lack of oxygen caused by sleep apnea increases health risks such as cardiovascular disease, aortic disease (e.g. aortic aneurysm), [163] high blood pressure, [164] [165] stroke, [166] diabetes, clinical depression, [167] weight gain, obesity, [64] and even death.

7. Sleep-related breathing disorder - Wikipedia

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   Sleep apnea is measured by the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). An AHI is determined with a sleep study. AHI values for adults are categorized as: [2] [3] Normal: AHI<5; Mild sleep apnea: 5≤AHI<15; Moderate sleep apnea: 15≤AHI<30; Severe sleep apnea: AHI≥30; An episode is when a person hesitates to breathe or stops their breathing altogether.