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25% of U.S. children have sleep apnea.
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope on
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Thanks for posting this Rock. There's quite a discussion going on over on our sister site, and I just thought I'd paste one of the interesting replies from Mack D Jones, MD, SAAN:-
"A recent sleep study of 5 to 12 year old Chinese children in ten major cities in China, revealed 27.5% had OSA. The commonly quoted incidence in the USA is 2%, a number that is old, outdated and ludicrous to quote for the children of today. Dr Parks' estimate of 25% is much closer to reality. If we ever get around to doing an up to date study, I'll bet the incidence in our children is even greater than in China, especially in view of our current obesity epidemic.
BTW, obesity does not cause sleep apnea. Sleep apnea causes obesity. Weight gain makes it worse. Weight loss makes it better, but you still have it. SIDS is caused by sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a neurological disorder involving the autonomic nervous system. Neurons within the medulla oblongota and their tributaries are dysfunctional from birth. It has all the makings of an acquired genetic disorder involving the respiratory control systems. Don't believe me? The AASM is going to address this question in June. Let's see what they have to say. Stay tuned."
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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I just posted a response to this particular post. Obesity does cause apnea just as much as the revearse.
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Hmm interesting, and I agree. I was at a Sleep Apnoea Support Meeting last night and I purposely looked around the hall at all the people. About half the people had a weight problem, but there were many slim people too. A lot of the people were over 55, and I'm thinking that is it that these people have only been diagnosed because age has caught up with them and other conditions? Most of the people I spoke to said they've snored for as long as they can remember, so perhaps if they'd been diagnosed earlier, they wouldn't now be fighting with diabetes and thyroid problems etc. Just as important, there were several groups with different family members - one man had 3 sons with him and they all had sleep apnoea - more evidence of the hereditary factor.
Rock said:
I just posted a response to this particular post. Obesity does cause apnea just as much as the revearse.
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I have listened to the views and opinions of many great minds on this particular subject. I find it quite interesting that many of these people have never spent a night in a sleep lab. I am constantly reminding my own doc that reading a study is quite different from watching one in real time. Sleep docs in America rarely see their patients. It's really sad.
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