Sleep Disordered Breathing, an Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics
Author: Max Hirshkowitz
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2007-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781416039228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders are associated with upper airway obstructions such as obstructive sleep apnea. If left untreated, sleep apnea can result in a growing number of health problems including hypertension, stroke, heart failure, irregular heart beats and heart attacks. In addition, untreated sleep apnea may be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle crashes as well as academic underachievement in children and adolescents. This issue presents the very latest information for physicians to help them diagnose and treat this disorder.