Waking up shagged and irritated is related to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep disorder that if left untreated can effect body and mind awfully.
Untreated OSA can cause night sweats, fatigue, heart attacks, hypertension, strokes, work hazards and depression. OSA affects more than 12 million Americans, says reports from American Sleep Association. The study sample was of 200 people which was conducted for the testing of OSA using the Berlin Questionnaire, a validated assessment used to identify the risk (low to high) of sleep disordered breathing. In the study sample, 23 per cent people out of 200 participants had sleep apnea symptoms, of which almost 80 per cent were male.
A new research confirms that dentists can treat sleep-related disorders by checking into patient’s mouth. The sleep apnea may have a connection with tongue indentations and over-sized tonsils. Lead author of the study Thikriat Al-Jewair at University at Buffalo in the US stated, “Dentists are in the unique position as health care professionals to pinpoint signs of obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep due to blocked upper airways.” Further he reports in the paper published in the Saudi Medical Journal, “Dentists see into their patient’s mouths more than physicians do and the signs are easy to identify.”
The scientists made a comparison of obese people and non-obese people and they found that sleep apnea disorder were 10 times more to be diagnosed in obese people. The Food and Drug Administration ensures the safety and introduced a leading therapy for sleep apnea, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. CPAP is positive airway pressure ventilator, which use benign air pressure continuously to keep the airways constantly open in a person who is able to breathe spontaneously on their own.
