Many times I was wondering: can sleep apnea cause death ?
The answer is that sleep apnea death may appear in case you don't treat yourself for a long period of time.
The severity of sleep apnea has an important role to know if the sleep disorder is life threatening .
Although the most common symptom, loud snoring, is treated as a joke, sleep apnea is a very serious sleep disorder. Untreated, sleep apnea can be progressive, worsening in time, until it presents a real threat to life.
Did you know that the football star Reggie White died from complications arising from sleep apnea?
Here are the most common causes of death in sleep apnea:
cardiovascular disease.
workplace and automobile accidents
congestive heart failure during sleep
fatal arrhythmia
stroke
long pauses of breathing in sleep, or cessation of breathing
If you look carefully at these causes, you will see that sleep apnea itself is not fatal, but the effect it has in cardiovascular system contributes to increased mortality.
Is difficult to draw a clear relationship between sleep apnea and death. For example, the scientists have found an increase in mortality among male snorers, where they may die in their sleep or after waking up.
What scientists do know from observations is that sleep apnea patients are at increased risk of sudden death at night as compared with daytime.
I believe it is obvious that the patients with sleep apnea who received no treatment had a higher death rate than those who received treatment like
CPAP, weight loss or surgery.
Many years ago, people with sleep apnea had a choice between loud snoring,
excessive drowsiness,
tracheostomy and death. In our days,
CPAP
is not only a life saver, but you will forget all side effects of sleep apnea.
With CPAP therapy, you will enjoy life again! You just have to get over some
CPAP side effects
that might bother you.
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MY husband died from sleep apnea
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Perry, my husband and devoted father of our 5 young children, had severe sleep apnea - he was chaperoning a field trip and had his own private room.