Prepared by: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Salem Bahamam, Professor of Chest Diseases and Sleep Medicine. Sleep apnea is a common disease, its symptoms include annoying snoring, sleep apnea and increased sleepiness during the day. New research, published this month in the journal (J Clin Sleep Med), studied the complications of the disease in those with it, so the researchers followed a sample of patients with respiratory arrest.
(397 patients) for a period of 20 years, and the researchers found during the follow-up period that the risk of developing the following complications in patients with sleep apnea (moderate to severe) compared to a similar sample of non-infected patients was the following: death (four times), stroke (three and a half times) ), And cancer (two and a half times), and this percentage persisted after controlling for other risk factors such as age, smoking, weight, cholesterol level, and blood pressure.
This study adds another evidence of the seriousness of this disease and the need to pay attention to its diagnosis and treatment by the competent health authorities, and the patients who suffer from this disease must review the specialist doctors....
