{"id":14351,"date":"2021-12-30T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=14351"},"modified":"2021-12-29T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:44:40","slug":"scientists-find-a-potentially-deadly-sleep-disorder-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/scientists-find-a-potentially-deadly-sleep-disorder-combo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find a Potentially Deadly Sleep-Disorder Combo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newest research conducted by <\/span>Flinders University<\/span><\/i> in Adelaide, Australia, shows that individuals with obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia are 50% more likely to die from a heart condition than individuals who don\u2019t have any of these sleep disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these conditions are widespread, affecting 10% (insomnia) and 30% (<\/span>sleep apnea<\/span><\/a> or SA) of the population. What\u2019s more, they frequently co-occur in the same individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers identified the possibly fatal risk of this sleep disorder combo by <\/span>looking into data<\/span><\/a> collected from over 5,000 Americans diagnosed with co-morbid insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea, a.k.a. COMISA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This <\/span>15-years-long study<\/span><\/a> followed the health of individuals who were aged about 60 when the study started. The results were quite unsettling, to say the least.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Namely, COMISA patients were almost twice as likely to suffer from high blood pressure\u2014one of the major risk factors for developing chronic kidney and cardiovascular diseases. They were also 70% more likely than their COMISA-free peers to develop cardiovascular diseases.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, even when other contributing factors were eliminated, people with insomnia and sleep apnea were 47% more likely to die of any cause. This just goes to show how serious these sleep disorders are, both separately and in combination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Depending on the underlying causes, patients with severe insomnia may benefit from natural sleep aids or seek prescription medication. On the other hand, severe (O)SA patients require the use of <\/span>top-quality CPAP machines<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

These treatments aim to lower blood pressure and increase one\u2019s blood flow, at the same time preventing chronic illnesses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is probably not the only sleep-disorder combo that increases the overall risk of death. More research is still needed to learn more about the side effects of sleep disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest research conducted by Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, shows that individuals with obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia are 50% more likely to die from a heart condition than individuals who don\u2019t have any of these sleep disorders. Unfortunately, these conditions are widespread, affecting 10% (insomnia) and 30% (sleep apnea or SA) of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}