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Sleep & Your Health - Sleep Disorders Cause Chronic Disease

Consequences of Untreated Sleep Disorders

Untreated Sleep Disorders such as Sleep Disordered Breathing and Restless Legs Syndrome, often lead to chronic diseases such as:

Sleep Apnea is very Common in Patients suffering from Chronic Diseases such as Hypertention, Type II Dabetes and Stroke

The figure above shows the prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing amongst patients with Congestive Heart Failure1, Stroke/TIA2,3, Type 2 Diabetes4, Drug-Resistant Hypertension5, Hypertension6, Coronary Artery Disease7

Accurate diagnosis and targeted therapy for underlying sleep disorders is often successful in reversing the immediate problems and reducing the chronic health risks associated with these conditions. Our mission is to help patients get their life back by prescribing the most advanced and specific therapies. This gets patients on the pathway to healthy sleep and a healthier future.

  1. Lipkin, Sleep-disordered breathing in chronic stable heart failure, Lancet 1999; 354:531-32
  2. Bassetti et. al., Sleep apnea in acute cerebrovascular diseases: final report on 128 patients, Sleep 1999; 22:217-23
  3. Parra et. al., Time course of sleep-related breathing disorders in first-ever stroke or transient ischemic attack, American Journal of Respiratory Care Medicine 2000; 161:375-80
  4. Resnick HE, Redline S, Shahar E, Gilpin A, Newman A, Walter R, Ewy GA, Howard BV, Punjabi NM; Sleep Heart Health Study. Diabetes and sleep disturbances: findings from the Sleep Heart Health Study. Diabetes Care 2003 Mar;26(3):702-9.
  5. Logan et. al., High prevalence of unrecognized sleep apnoea in drug-resistant hypertension, Journal of Hypertension 2001; 19:2271-21
  6. Sjöström et. al., Prevalence of sleep apnoea and snoring in hypertensive men: a population based study., Thorax 2002; 57: 602-607
  7. Mooe T et. al., Sleep-disordered breathing in men with coronary artery disease, Chest1996 Mar; 109(3):659-63.

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