According to a study from the Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine in the UK, those who suffer from even mild sleep apnea are at risk of suffering a heart attack. The study will be published in the first issue for November of the American Thoracic Society’s American Jour ...

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) has given the nod of approval to Holter oximeters  which tests out obstructive sleep apnea at home. The device has been labeled reliable as it accurately measures the outcomes for the surgical and no ...

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 ...