Weight loss can help sleep apnea symptoms (HealthDay)

too many people who lose a significant amount of weight in obstructive sleep apnea that could eliminate condition, suggests a new study.

Without knowing it, people with sleep apnea wake it up to breathe fight several times during the night as they. The condition can cause severe daytime fatigue and other symptoms. In many cases are patients with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a treatment treats, a computer, used to keep your Airways open during sleep.

According to Dr. Virend Somers, Professor of medicine and cardiovascular diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota seems to be a link between sleep apnea and extra pounds. But exactly how they are related to unclear is he said. "Although the majority of patients are obese, not everyone with obese, sleep apnea", Somers, who was not with the new study said.

Doctors who know, "how you weight gain, sleep apnea worse is, and how you to lose, it improves", said Somers. Extra fat cells affect the brain control of the respiratory system, he suggested, or overweight of the airline's ability remain open during sleep affect can.

In the new study, published in the BMJ online June 1, follows researchers led by Kari Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden 63 male sleep apnea patients, at the age of 30 to 65, who were overweight. 58 Completed, a version of the Cambridge weight plan, with a very low-calorie diet for nine weeks, followed by a year-long program of weight maintenance advice. Partial funding for the study of the Cambridge weight plan is made available.

After a year, about half of patients that lost weight and it no longer a CPAP machine requires you to keep your Airways open during sleep and sleep apnea went way in 10 percent of them.

Somers said that it is unlikely, that the specific diet approach was even important. "I am not aware any interaction between what you eat and sleep apnea," he said. Instead declared likely is it, that simply losing weight the problem indeed, he.

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