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Health Benefits of CPAP Use

How Can CPAP Improve My Health?
By nor­mal­iz­ing your breath­ing in sleep, CPAP helps pro­tect you from the severe health risks that are related to OSA.

Heart Dis­ease
The use of CPAP over an extended period of time may also help pro­tect you from health prob­lems such as:
  • Con­ges­tive heart failure
  • Coro­nary artery disease
  • Irreg­u­lar heartbeat
  • Stroke
Many of the risks involved with sleep apnea are related to how your heart functions. The pauses in breath­ing dur­ing sleep that char­ac­ter­ize sleep apnea can cause dras­tic changes in your oxy­gen lev­els and blood pressure. When this hap­pens it puts a strain on your heart. Research has shown that peo­ple with OSA have a higher rate of death due to heart disease. The link is strongest between OSA and high blood pressure. Studies also show that CPAP may reduce blood pres­sure lev­els in peo­ple with sleep apnea.

Stroke
Recent research has also shown that sleep apnea increases your risk of stroke. A stroke is a sud­den loss of brain func­tion due to a block­age or rup­ture of one of the blood ves­sels lead­ing to the brain. Stroke is one of the lead­ing causes of death and long-term dis­abil­ity in the U.S. Stud­ies show that peo­ple with OSA are two to four times more likely to have a stroke than peo­ple who do not have sleep apnea. The con­sis­tent use of CPAP may reduce this risk of stroke for a per­son with OSA.

Dia­betes
Increas­ingly, data has sug­gested that OSA may be related to glu­cose intol­er­ance and insulin resistance. These are fac­tors in type II dia­betes, the most com­mon form of diabetes. Treatment with CPAP can improve insulin sen­si­tiv­ity in peo­ple with type IIdia­betes and OSA.

Motor Vehi­cle Acci­dents
Hav­ing sleep apnea can make you up to 10 times more likely to be involved in a deadly motor vehi­cle acci­dent. The day­time sleepi­ness caused by OSA can make it hard for you to stay awake while driving. Treating sleep apnea with CPAP reduces your risk of being in an accident.

Increased Alert­ness
CPAP can reduce the sleepi­ness and day­time fatigue that are com­mon symp­toms of sleep apnea. By pre­vent­ing pauses in breath­ing as you sleep, CPAP restores a nor­mal sleep pat­tern and increases your total sleep time. This helps you to wake up in the morn­ing feel­ing more refreshed.

Emo­tional Sta­bil­ity
Using CPAP may enable you to think, con­cen­trate and make deci­sions bet­ter dur­ing the day. This can reduce your chance of injury at work and improve your productivity.

Decreased Med­ical Expenses
Indi­vid­u­als with untreated sleep apnea have higher health care costs com­pared to those with­out sleep apnea. These expenses may decrease when you use CPAPnightly to treat sleep apnea.

Less Snor­ing
By keep­ing your air­way open as you sleep, CPAP can also reduce the sound of snor­ing.  You may not notice this because many peo­ple are unaware of their snor­ing levels. But your bed part­ner will ben­e­fit greatly from the qui­eter sleep­ing environment.

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