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News items on 'Sleep Apnoea Syndrome'
Why shedding a few pounds might be the key to a good night's sleep
(Daily Mail 07/02/2009)
Researchers, from Kuopio University Hospital in Finland, studied 81 overweight and obese men and women with mild obstructive sleep apnoea, a common condition characterised by pauses in breathing, gasping and snoring. Weight loss eased the patients' symptoms, improving their sleep. The more they lost, the better they slept, with almost 90% who lost 33lb or more cured of their sleep disorder.
New device offers a breath of fresh air for bad sleepers
(Daily Mail 12/01/2009)
A new 'intelligent breathing' device for people suffering from sleep apnoea can predict when patients will stop breathing and actually prevent this from happening. The machine gives a small amount of carbon dioxide to prevent hyperventilation. Sleep apnoea affects about one million Britons. It causes the patient to stop breathing for long periods at night and be tired through the day.
Heavy snorers 'burn more energy'
(BBC 16/12/2008)
People with bedtime snoring and breathing problems may be using up far more calories while they sleep. Those with the worst sleep apnoea symptoms burned 373 extra calories a day compared with those with only mild symptoms, US researchers found. The payback comes in the daytime, said a UK specialist, with sleep apnoea sufferers craving food and too sluggish to exercise.
Treating snoring 'could help Alzheimer's sufferers' memories'
(Telegraph 12/12/2008)
Symptoms of dementia could be exacerbated by the snoring condition called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). The lack of sleep and disruption it creates could cause many patients' symptoms to worsen, according to researchers. The Alzheimer's Society called for further research into the treatment, which it said was potentially "good news" for some of the 700,000 sufferers in Britain.
This man woke up utterly exhausted every morning. The reason? He had been 'dying' forty times an hour in his sleep
(Daily Mail 14/10/2008)
Charles, 57, had been fighting extreme tiredness for most of his life. For years he woke up feeling utterly exhausted, and he experienced many embarrassing episodes after falling asleep at inappropriate moments. He thought long working hours might be to blame. In fact, he was one of the thousands of people in the UK who suffer from a condition called sleep apnoea without knowing it.
Insomnia: dying for a good night's sleep
(Telegraph 14/04/2008)
Sleep problems are a modern British epidemic and at last the Department of Health is taking it seriously. Fiona Macdonald-Smith investigates.
Heavy snorers to get special breathing masks from NHS
(Mirror 26/03/2008)
£600 gadget will stop 400 crash deaths
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