healthy sleep matters!
Going without adequate sleep carries with it both short and long term consequences.
Most people don’t get enough sleep!
A lack of adequate sleep can affect mood, judgement, energy levels, ability to retain information, and may increase the risk of serious accidents and injury. In the long term, chronic sleep deprivation may lead to a host of health problems including high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even early mortality.
Symptoms of sleep apnea include:
Untreated sleep apnea affects your well-being. Sleep apnea may contribute to high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction, as well as to memory and concentration impairment. Since sleep apnea reduces the quality of your sleep and contributes to daytime sleepiness, driving becomes more dangerous. In fact, sleep apnea is a leading cause of car accidents.
A lack of adequate sleep can affect mood, judgement, energy levels, ability to retain information, and may increase the risk of serious accidents and injury. In the long term, chronic sleep deprivation may lead to a host of health problems including high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even early mortality.
Symptoms of sleep apnea include:
- Headaches
- Poor Concentration
- Loss of Libido
- Tiredness of waking
- Daytime sleepiness
- Difficulty waking up in the morning
- Poor performance in school, on the job, or in sports
- Increased clumsiness
- Falling asleep during work or class
Untreated sleep apnea affects your well-being. Sleep apnea may contribute to high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction, as well as to memory and concentration impairment. Since sleep apnea reduces the quality of your sleep and contributes to daytime sleepiness, driving becomes more dangerous. In fact, sleep apnea is a leading cause of car accidents.
What does apnea mean?
Sleep apnea, the cessation of breathing during sleep, is a common problem that affects both adults and children. The National Institutes of Health estimate that more than 12 million Americans have sleep apnea, most often undetected or misdiagnosed. In fact, conservative estimates suggest that only 16 percent of sleep apnea sufferers receive treatment.
Getting proper treatment for Sleep Apnea, will increase the quality of your life dramatically!
how sleep apnea can affect your life
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Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing to Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea: From Tongue-tie to MMA.
In this video with Dr. Soroush Zaghi, The Evans Family describe their experience in dealing with obstructive sleep apnea, from being successfully treated with maxillary mandibular advancement surgery by Dr. Reza Mohaved and the steps they are taking with us to prevent these issues in their children by picking up on early signs and symptoms that are more readily treatable in children.
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SLEEP APNEA PATIENTS IN THE EAST AND WEST
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Discussion between Dr. Soroush Zaghi and Dr. Victor Abdullah- Honorary Associate Professor of the the Department of ENT, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Consultant ENT surgeon of the United Christian Hospital of Hong Kong. "Myofunctional therapy, lingual frenuloplasty, and the role of ENTs in the treatment of sleep and breathing disorders."
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