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Sleep disorders affect 50 to 70 million Americans. The most common disorder, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, causes a person to stop breathing repeatedly during sleep, and can lead to an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.

Other common sleep disorders include Insomnia, Restless Legs Syndrome and Night Terrors. It goes without saying that these conditions can impact quality of life – not only robbing a person of a good night’s sleep but leaving many people too tired to enjoy life during the day.

Lack of Sleep Linked to Increased Cancer Risk

Women who slept less than seven hours nightly had a 47 percent higher risk of cancer than those who got more sleep among the physically active women, the researchers reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Will Dunham, Reuters, Washington, 11-17-08

NTSB Says Driver Fell Asleep

The National Transportation Safety Board puts blame in Wisconsin bus crash on a truck driver who fell asleep and urges those who regulate commercial vehicles to find ways to combat driver fatigue with new technology.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 09-17-08

Snorers Have Blood Sludge

A University of Buffalo study found that people who suffer from sleep apnea slough off abnormally high levels of dead cells from the walls of their arteries. After treatment for sleep apnea these levels dropped into near normal ranges.
Healthy Living Twin Cities, Nov/Dec 2008

Obesity Linked to Lack
of Sleep

A Columbia University study found that people averaging five hours of sleep were 50% more likely to be obese. Those who slept six hours a night were 23 percent more likely to be obese than those who slept seven to nine hours.
Healthy Living Twin Cities, Nov/Dec 2008

Apnea Therapy Helps Alzheimer Cognition

For patients with Alzheimer's disease and obstructive sleep apnea, treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) seems to improve cognitive function, according to a report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Nov 2008