Common Sleeping Disorder Ups Chances of Dying
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
Nightly bouts of interrupted, oxygen-deprived sleep from a collapsed airway in the upper neck raises the chances of dying in middle-aged to elderly people by as much as 46 percent in the most severe cases, according to a landmark study on sleep apnea by lung experts at Johns Hopkins and six other U.S. medical centers.