found that sleep apnea and joint pain might be interconnected.<\/span><\/p>\nThe study results showed a strong association between the severity of sleep apnea and the severity of joint pain in postmenopausal women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBut what’s the connection between these two conditions?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe answer may lie in hormone changes. Namely, joint tissues have estrogen receptors that maintain the health and the working order of muscles, cartilage, and ligaments. And it’s a well-known fact that estrogen levels drop in menopause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFurthermore, sleep apnea in postmenopausal women might be triggered by a drop in sex steroid levels.<\/span><\/p>\nThe significance of these findings is reflected in shedding light on a new symptom (joint pain) that could help diagnose OSA, reducing the number of women who go undiagnosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTimely diagnosis is of utmost importance, as sleep apnea is one of the risk factors for hypertension, diabetes, and the progression of CVD, the number one cause of death in the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a well-known fact that postmenopausal women are prone to negative physiological changes (e.g., sleep apnea, joint pain, etc.) more than their non-menopausal counterparts.\u00a0 For example, postmenopausal women are especially vulnerable to developing sleep apnea (the most common type of which is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)), an insidious sleep-related breathing condition that hinders restful sleep, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14686,"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\/14685"}],"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=14685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14688,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions\/14688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}