Sleep Apnea Quiz

• Do you snore?
• Are you sleepy during the day?
• Are you overweight?
• Do you wake up with morning headaches?
• Do you have high blood pressure?
• Do you find it hard to stay awake while driving, watching TV or attending a meeting?
• Do you ever wake up choking or gasping for air, or have a skipping or racing heartbeat during the night?
• Has anyone watched you sleeping and told you that you hold your breath, snort, or move often during sleep?

If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, you may be suffering from sleep apnea. Untreated sleep apnea can increase the chances of driving accidents and increase your risk of stroke or heart disease.

Contact your doctor but let him or her know that it is a good idea to work on strengthening the breathing simultaneously while addressing sleep apnea. Otherwise you can become dependant upon the drug or mechanical assistance to breathing for the rest of your life. Bring along a copy of the #176 Rapidly Improving Your Breathing Video and #191 Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing manual.

The authors concluded by noting that the cross-sectional association from the baseline examination of the Sleep Heart Health Study cohort demonstrates a modest to moderate effect of sleep-disordered breathing on CVD manifestations at a range of AHI that is considered normal or minimally abnormal. If reproducible, these results could have significant public health implications.

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