According to the latest research, overweight people are at a greater risk of not only suffering from sleep-disorder-breathing conditions (SDB) but also severe consequences associated to these disorders.
The study, to be published in the October 15 2009 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, an official publication of the American Thoracic Society, excess weight increased the severity of oxygen de-saturation in the blood of individuals with (Sleep Disorder Breathing) during and after apneas (obstructed airway) and hypopneas (slow or shallow breathing). Read the rest of this post
