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Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea or sleep-disordered breathing is an ordinary disorder that can be
serious.
In this disorder, you re breathing pauses a number of times while
sleeping.
Typically, there is a loud snort or a choking...
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea or sleep-disordered breathing is an ordinary disorder that can be
serious.
In this disorder, you re breathing pauses a number of times while
sleeping.
Typically, there is a loud snort or a choking sound when normal
breathing starts again.
Patients with this disorder often snore so loud.
On the
other hand not all people who snore have this kind of sleeping disorder.
Usually, sleep apnea is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disturbs your sleep
3 or more nights every week.
When breathing gaps happen during sleeping,
deep sleep is shifted to shallow sleep.
This will cause a poor quality sleep
which will cause you less energy and makes you exhausted during the day.
That is why people having problem have a high risk for accident such as car
crashes, other work related accidents and other medical problems.
The most familiar type of sleeping disorder is the snoring or obstructive sleep
apnea.
In this, your airway has collapsed or blocked during sl
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