Sleep apnea
Patient-facing notes on sleep apnea, written for people in the north Columbus metro.
Sleep apnea
Understanding your AHI number: what mild, moderate and severe mean
Mild, moderate, and severe AHI bands, home-test undercounts, and why symptoms can disagree with the integer.
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Sleep apnea in women — why it is missed so often
Insomnia-predominant symptoms, REM-only disease, and how 3% versus 4% hypopnea scoring changes who gets a diagnosis.
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Can sleep apnea kill you? An honest answer
Crash risk, observational mortality, and what a pause in breathing is not. No scare copy.
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Sleep apnea and your heart: what the evidence actually shows
Observational links to hypertension, AF, and coronary disease, and why the SAVE trial did not show what patients expect.
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What is sleep apnea? Signs most people miss
Resistant blood pressure, nocturia, atrial fibrillation, and the partner who already knows. Not a generic “what is apnea” page.
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Central vs obstructive sleep apnea
Effort versus blockage, why a home test can miss central events, and why the treatments are not interchangeable.
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Does sleep apnea go away on its own?
Weight change, surgery, and childhood adenoids aside, adult obstructive apnea rarely vanishes without treatment.
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Sleep apnea and commercial driving: DOT certification explained
FMCSA has no single apnea rule. What examiners still ask for, and how PAP data is used in a DOT physical.