Sleep Apnea, Fact or Fiction ?
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Snoring was once considered a simple annoyance for bed partners, but there is a growing awareness in the medical community that the grunts and snorts of noisy sleepers can also be a sign of sleep apnea.
It's a condition shown to increase the risk of several serious illnesses, including heart disease, stroke and dementia. Critics, however, worry that overnight tests to diagnose apnea, particularly those done in sleep labs, may be over-prescribed, at great cost to the health care system.
Testing can be a lucrative business, and labs have popped up in free-standing clinics and hospitals across the country. Over the past decade, the number of accredited sleep labs that test for the disorder has quadrupled, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
At the same time, insurer spending on the procedure has skyrocketed. Medicare payments for sleep testing increased from $62 million in 2001 to $235 million in 2019, according to the Office of the Inspector General.
Sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax. That causes an airway obstruction that can stop a person's breathing for several seconds — even minutes. It causes restless sleep and, sometimes, dangerously-low blood oxygen levels. The disorder can be diagnosed by monitoring a snorer's sleep patterns, either in an overnight visit to a sleep lab or at home using a portable testing device. It's then often treated with a CPAP machine that helps keep a snorer's airway open during sleep.
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