Re: RESEARCH - Sleep apnea rises with obesity, boosts deaths in ...

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In a message dated 8/18/2009 7:56:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

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Sleep Apnea Rises With Obesity, Boosts Deaths in Middle-Aged

By Rob Waters

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sleep apnea, an airway-blocking condition that

robs millions of overweight people of restful sleep, also boosts the

risk of death, according to a large, government-funded study.

Doctors at seven institutions, including the s Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health in Baltimore, measured the sleep and breathing

patterns of more than 6,400 people and followed them for the next

eight years. Adults older than 40 whose breathing and sleep were

disrupted most often were almost 50 percent more likely to die than

those who slept normally.

More than 12 million Americans are thought to have sleep apnea. Four

in five are unaware they have the condition and aren’t getting

treatment, according to the National Institutes of Health. Rates of

sleep apnea are rising with obesity levels because excess fat in the

neck and throat can clog the airways, blocking them temporarily and

forcing people to gasp for breath.

“With the rising obesity epidemic in the U.S., this is of great

concern,†said Samet, co-author of the study and chairman of

the department of preventive medicine at the University of Southern

California, in a telephone interview. “Almost 65 percent of adults now

are overweight or obese. That’s causing more and more sleep-disordered

breathing.â€

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