According to TS.BS.Phan Thanh Thuy - Respiratory Center (Bach Mai Hospital), stroke and myocardial infarction are at higher risk of occurring in people with sleep apnea syndrome.This is a distinct disorder by apnea, sleeping for 10 seconds or more and leads to a decrease in blood oxygen concentration.

Sleep apnea syndrome is classified into 3 groups: obstructive apnea, central apnea and mixed apnea.

In particular, congestion syndrome accounts for the main proportion, common in men, smoking, overweight, obesity with BMI body mass index> 23, short neck, small jaw;Or family history of snoring, sleep apnea.

Patients are diagnosed with hypertension, mood disorders, cognitive disorders, coronary artery disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation or diabetes Type 2 are those who need to screen for syndromeSleep apnea if there is at least one of three symptoms: snoring, excessive daytime sleeping or witnessing apnea, Dr. Thuy said.

According to the US Sleep Medical Association statistics, up to 80% of patients with sleep apnea syndrome have not been diagnosed.

How dangerous sleep apnea?

Dr. Thuy said that sleep apnea causes patients to show expression of excessive daytime sleeping, resulting in an increase in traffic accidents and labor in labor accidents.More seriously, the loss of sleep quality due to this disease can also cause mental health problems.

Patients may have fatigue, difficulty concentration, anxiety, depression.These issues can affect the quality of life and performance of the patient, easily irritable and easily agitated in unwanted situations.This condition can affect the social and family relations of the patient.

"Sleep apnea can lead to metabolic disorders such as diabetes, lipid disorders, neurological diseases such as Alzheimer, ...",Dr. Thuy said.

Particularly serious, sleep apnea can also lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease such as anti -treatment hypertension, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, stroke.

Sleep apnea syndrome can be seen in 35% of patients with hypertension, 50% in patients with atrial fibrillation, 50% of patients with heart failure and up to 80% in patients with hypertension resistance.

A synthetic analysis in stroke patients in Asia shows that up to 73.7% of patients with stroke have sleep apnea.One of the most dangerous complications of sleep apnea syndrome is the sudden death in the night due to low reduced reduction of blood oxygen and arrhythmia, acute myocardial infarction, and aquarium doctor.

Also according to Dr. Thuy, treatment of sleep apnea will depend on the symptoms of the patient and the severity of sleep apnea.

The main measures to treat sleep apnea syndrome include:

- Lose weight, adjust the diet properly and exercise, maintain the ideal weight with cases of overweight and obesity.

- Surgical treatment with cases with abnormal respiratory abnormalities such as amydal too much, small jaw, lagging back.

- Wearing the device to push the lower jaw first.

- Break ventilation of positive pressure.

- Stimulating the nerves of XII.

Ngoc Minh