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Article: Largest-Ever Sleep Disorder Clinical Trial Launched at Stanford; Patients Needed to Volunteer for Study of Treatment for Sleep Apnea.
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- June 14, 2005
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STANFORD, Calif. -- If asked to name the most common chronic illness in the United States, sleep apnea probably wouldn't be the first thing to pop into your head. Yet according to well-known sleep expert William Dement, MD, PhD, no other chronic disease afflicts more Americans than apnea -- a potentially fatal disorder in which people stop breathing sometimes hundreds of times a night for a minute or more each time.
Dement and his colleagues at Stanford University School of Medicine are now recruiting patients for a clinical trial on a treatment for the disease, which Dement said affects 24 percent of men and 9 percent of women between the ages of 30 and 60. ...