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Article: Sleep apnea diagnosis missed in women.(HOT FLASHES)
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- A Friend Indeed
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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In the March, 2005 issue of the journal Sleep, Dr. Meir Kryger at the University of Manitoba and director of the Sleep Disorders Centre at St. Boniface Hospital, and his colleagues, found that women, unlike men, were more likely to have been treated for hypothyroidism or depression than sleep apnea. (People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, causing daytime drowsiness.) The researchers studied 260 patients, half men, half women, with an average age of 48, all diagnosed with sleep apnea from sleep lab tests. They found that the family doctors of the women in the study never suspected that their patients may have had sleep apnea even ...
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