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Doctors tend to miss Sleep Apnea and Diabetes connection

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According to Virginia Zamudio-Lange, a speaker last week in Washington at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators only 47 percent doctors make the connection between sleep apnea and diabetes. Hence in the United States alone 85 percent of sleep apnea cases among diabetics go undiagnosed.

“Zamudio-Lange reported that in a sleep apnea screening protocol developed at Alamo Diabetes Team in San Antonio, diabetes educators asked patients about s

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Sleep Deprivation Can Lead To Hypertension Risk in Women

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According to a new study women who deprive themselves of sleep may be more likely to die of heart disease. The research conducted at the Warwick Medical School claims that women who slept five hours or less were twice as likely to suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension) than women who slept seven h

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Salesman Convinced Old Woman To Buy Bed For 5 hours!

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Here is a bedtime horror story , okay slight exaggeration on my part but read on! 75 year old Agnes Vickers from Seaham, Durham was pressured by a salesman from Flexomatic For 5 long hours! Yes folks I know perseverance is an admirable quality but didn’t the salesman heard of the term overkill?

The poor old woman was convinced to buy a £2,000 hi-tech bed and even though she canceled her order the next day, the firm took a de

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