Don Spence, chief executive officer of Philips Home Healthcare Solutions, has issued a written statement endorsing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) educational initiative to increase awareness about sleep deprivation.
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insulin resistance
Nov
9
2009
Respironics’ CEO praises CDC on sleep deprivation outreach as an “important public health issue”
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For sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a new study shows that losing weight is perhaps the single most effective way to reduce OSA symptoms and associated disorders, according to findings published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Weight loss may not be a new miracle pill or a fancy high-tech treatment, but it is an exciting therapy for sufferers of OSA both because of its short- and long-term effectiveness and for its relatively modest price tag.
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Not only is obstructive sleep apnea linked to insulin resistance and liver disease independent of obesity, but at least one risk factor is also common to obesity and obstructive sleep apnea: prolonged daytime sitting or standing. Even when the sedentary lifestyle does not lead to obesity, it may still lead to obstructive sleep apnea and its concomitant health risks, according to a research article in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
“Overnight fluid displacement from legs, related to prolonged sitting, may play a previously unrecognized role in the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea,” wrote principle investigator, T. Douglass Bradley, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology at the University of Toronto.
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