Apnea - Articles
Can H1N1 Cause Sleep Apnea?
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Dr. Steven P.
You may be thinking that I’m stretching things a bit by making the suggestion that H1N1 can cause sleep apnea, but in my mind, there’s no doubt that whether it’s H1N1, the common cold, allergies, or strep throat, any degree of inflammation and swelling in the nose an ...
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Logan's 30 Month Check-Up
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Melanie
... issues and his umbilical hernia. I really was hoping for a sleep study now, but he convinced me to wait til 36 months to see if he will continue to grow out of his suspected apnea. He thinks it is getting better not worse and that we may see it continue to get better. But, he said he would go ahead with it at 36 months if I still was concerned. ...
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Feeling Better
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Josh Hopkins
... giving her the H1N1 booster shot. Pulmonology would like to do a full 8-hour sleep study once she has fully recovered from her recent illness, to determine if she has sleep apnea and how much she actually obstructs her airway while sleeping at night. Unfortunately, Lucy's prolonged recovery hasn't allowed her to be home much to play and work on h ...
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Sleep Apnea and Breast Cancer: Is There A Connection?
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Dr. Steven P.
... than 40. This is an important issue for me as my aunt died from metastatic breast cancer in her early 40s. One thing that I see over and over again is how obstructive sleep apnea can affect every aspect of your health, from your mood, to diabetes, to heart disease. You may think that cancer and sleep apnea are totally separate conditions, but wit ...
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Logan's 30 Month Check-Up
by
Melanie
... issues and his umbilical hernia. I really was hoping for a sleep study now, but he convinced me to wait til 36 months to see if he will continue to grow out of his suspected apnea. He thinks it is getting better not worse and that we may see it continue to get better. But, he said he would go ahead with it at 36 months if I still was concerned. ...
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Snoring As Your Internal Smoke Alarm
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Dr. Steven P.
... our sleep. I commented in a previous blog how there’s no such thing as "benign snoring." If you snore, you have a 35% chance of having obstructive sleep apnea, which increases your chances of having a heart attack or a stroke by 3-5 times. Even if you don’t have official sleep apnea, you’ll still have a higher chan ...
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Weight Loss and Your Health
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MJT
... at a healthy level is a huge step toward the prevention a of a large number of diseases that you don't want to find yourself burdened with. These can include: diabetes, sleep apnea, heart disease, and cancer, just to name a few.If you maintain a healthy weight, it can also help you manage diseases that you may already have such as Paget's disease, ...
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Gig'em Andrew (and Aggies)
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aggie01l
... few weeks. After antibiotics his lymph nodes were still noticeably enlarged, but in pediatrics this isn't always out of the ordinary. But that combined with potential sleep apnea, allergies, sinus issues, he decided to order the cat scan to get a better look at his airway and sinus cavities in addition to ordering just about every blood test out ...
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