Sleep Apena And Dementia – Sleep apnea could cause dementia according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The sleep apnea dementia study focused on older women with moderate sleep apnea, 15 or more sleep interruptions an hour, finding they have twice the risk of developing dementia as those without the breathing disorder.
In JAMA, the sleep apnea causes dementia correlation was found after following 89 women with a mean age of 82 over five years, all of whom tested cognitively “normal” at the study’s start. Researchers think the elevated risk could be an effect of decreased oxygen getting to the brain, but they said there is not enough data to be sure yet—a separate pathology could be causing both.
This linkage between sleep apnea and dementia “is another reason why you want to be medically followed carefully and possibly treated” for sleep apnea, said the Kristine Yaffe,lead author. The researchers say they think they will find similar results for men, but more study is needed.
Sleep apnea disrupts the sleep of 10% to 20% of middle-aged and older adults. Do you suffer from mild or moderate sleep apnea?
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