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Article: HOW SLEEP APNEA INCREASES THE RISK OF STROKE-RELATED DEATH
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- The Hindustan Times
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- January 7, 2009
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Washington, Jan. 07 -- (ANI): Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, say that obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain, and eventually harms the brain's ability to modulate such changes and prevent damage to itself.
Reporting their observations in the Journal of Applied Physiology, they said that their findings might prove helpful in understanding why people with sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die in their sleep.
Sleep apnea is the most commonly diagnosed condition amongst sleep-related breathing ...