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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Snoring Cause Obesity?

 You have a strict diet, exercise, weight loss but would not go down and still be obese. Take a look at your sleep patterns, you may suffer from sleep apnea.

Dr Andreas Prasadja, RPSGT, sleep physician from the Sleep Disorder Clinic RS Mitra Kemayoran explains sleep apnea is a sleep disorder such as snoring. Sleep apnea can lead to obesity caused by poor sleep quality that disrupt the body's metabolism.

"So despite diet, exercise, weight loss but not too down, it could be the cause of sleep disorders. Sleep apnea is most common but tend to be ignored," he said when the topic of talk radio is killing Sleepiness, through the launch of new premium mattress in Jakarta, Tuesday (08/05/2012).

Research in the United States in 2002 showed that one in five Americans sleep apnea patients, with 80 percent go undiagnosed because snoring is considered as normal.

In fact, snoring is often regarded as characteristics of a deep sleep. Misperceptions about the snoring is making many people feel no need to consult a habit that will disturb them.

Dr Andreas explains, people with sleep apnea stop breathing while sleeping 97.85 seconds, he was snoring characteristics. People who snore during sleep have conditions such as suffocating, actually he woke up but not awake. This is what causes the process was interrupted sleep, and sleep quality became worse.

"In these conditions, oxygen is also decreased from 90 percent to 15 percent, heart rate increased cardiac work was becoming more severe," he explained.

According to Dr. Andrew, sleep apnea is characterized by snoring does not cause an infected died in his sleep. However, this sleep disorder raises the risk of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart problems to stroke.

"In other countries, treatment of sleep apnea using a sleep laboratory, included in the examination of cardiac patients," said Dr. Andreas adds, sleep disorders such as snoring (sleep apnea) that are not addressed properly can also cause impotence.


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