Even mild sleep apnea can cause you to stop breathing several times an hour—setting off a cascade of threats to your brain and heart health. SCIENCE; The toll that sleep apnea takes on the body.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disorder where the airway repeatedly becomes blocked during sleep, causing breathing pauses. This leads to poor sleep quality, daytime fatigue, and ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with a 12% higher risk of all-cause dementia and a 29% increased risk of vascular dementia if untreated, while the risk for Alzheimer's disease remains ...

Apnimed’s obstructive sleep apnea drug reduced breathing interruptions in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The once-nightly pill, which is based on research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...

Apnimed announces positive topline results in the first landmark phase 3 clinical trial of AD109, an investigational once-daily oral pill for obstructive sleep apnea. News release. Apnimed.

Central sleep apnea (CSA) is less common as it's a neurological issue, rather than to do with your airways. Associated with a fault in the brain, it fails to control breathing as you sleep.

Obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that causes lower oxygen levels during sleep, is linked to degeneration of brain regions associated with memory through damage to the brain's small blood ...

You know that a lack of sleep can hurt your heart. But if, like 30 million other Americans, you have sleep apnea, you could be getting plenty of zzz’s and still be putting your heart at risk.

New research from the National Sleep Foundation finds that nearly 90% of Americans said sleep apnea is a serious condition, but nearly one-third diagnosed are not currently being treated.

A home sleep study is more convenient and less expensive, but not as complete or accurate as a study done in a sleep lab such as the one at VVH. Furthermore, in a sleep lab a “split sleep study” can ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may raise the risk for Parkinson’s disease (PD), but early use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may mediate that effect, a large observational study ...