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Re: Sleep Apnea/Diabetes

Posted by Alamo Joe on November 27, 2007 at 07:16:19:

In Reply to: Re: Sleep Apnea/Diabetes posted by Fred on November 26, 2007 at 13:31:07:

Use Pubmed: Search for "reichmuth [au] AND diabetes AND apnea" You can get a full text of the paper. (FREE)

Please report back with your interpretation.

I am of the opinion that sleep apnea inflicts blunt force trauma on the pancreas etc. The injured organ(s) do not function properly resulting the undesired effects.

During an apnea, the diaphragm tries with effort 10 to 15 times harder than normal to overcome the obstruction. (Like trying to open the peanut butter jar.)

The "10 to 15" info comes from "Guilleminault C. Obstructive Sleep Apnea The Clinical Syndrome and Historical Perspective. Medical Clinics of North America November 1985 69(6);1187 - 1203.

Directly from page 1202 of that paper: "Although oxygen desaturation may not occur, the muscular effort required to maintain a partially open airway can cause some of the clinical symptoms seen in children."

PubMed searches using: "apnea AND diabetes" will return results which report CPAP reduces the level of diabetes with another paper reporting increase of diabetes severity with increasing AHI. Reichmuth, also has diabetes tracking AHI. The second search should return at least authors "Ip" and "Punjabi".

I apologize for the length.


May your searches for answers be fruitful

CA Alamo Joe



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