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Article: Sleep Apnea May Trigger Nighttime Heart Problems
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- The Culvert Chronicles
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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Heart attacks most often occur during the daytime, generally between 6 a.m. and noon. A nighttime heart attack, when the heart should be at rest, means that something unusual has happened, according to Dr. Virend Somers. Dr. Somers, a cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, is the lead author of a report in the July 29 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study links the nighttime heart attacks with the breathing disorder obstructive sleep apnea.
The link is not fully established, but it seems logical, said Dr. Somers, after he and colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame for nighttime heart attacks and strokes. Their studies ...