Sleeplessness and trouble sleeping are not just inconveniences and they certainly are not health problems to be taken lightly!
There have been many instance of death directly related to sleep apnea and falling alseep while driving is only one way that death can arise. Many patients who die in their sleep from heart malfunctions are the [...]
Up to 80% of patients with RLS also have PLMD, involuntary movements of the legs and sometimes the arms while a person is sleeping. PLMD is distinct from sleep starts because the movement isn’t jerky.
It occurs throughout the night and not just when a person is falling asleep, and the movement recurs fairly regularly, sometimes [...]
While eupnoea is normal breathing, hypopnea is an abnormal type of breathing when the airflow is labored because of some pathology of the respiratory system. In other words it’s underbreathing. Hypopnea comes from the Greek roots hypo- (meaning low, under, beneath, down, below normal) and pnoe (meaning breathing). Among other abnormal breathing patterns are: bradypnea [...]
