Losing weight can cure obstructive sleep apnea in overweight patients
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
For sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a new study shows that losing weight is perhaps the single most effective way to reduce OSA symptoms and associated disorders, according to a new study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, one of the American Thoracic Society's three peer-reviewed journals.
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