Sleep Apnea
Understanding Sleep Apnea: Symptoms and Prevalence
Symptoms identified but a pathology still underdiagnosed
“Three quarters of patients affected by sleep apnea are unaware of it”, specifies Doctor Jean-Baptiste Kerbrat, member of the French Federation of Orthodontics (FFO), “sleep apnea can be asymptomatic and the subject concerned unaware that he is suffering from it; the observation of the spouse who notices the respiratory interruptions is decisive in this case. But in the majority of cases, sleep apnea manifests itself through a cluster of symptoms: during the sleep phase, the subject presents repeated micro-arousals caused by the brain lacking oxygen and noisy resumptions of breathing, associated or not with episodes of choking, heavy breathing or snoring and heart rhythm disturbances. Symptoms which vary in intensity and can be caused by a number of other better-known pathologies… So much so that they are only associated with a suspicion of sleep apnea quite late by doctors.”
Observation of these symptoms may justify referring the patient to a structure specialized in the diagnosis of sleep disorders which will technically evaluate the suspicion of sleep apnea and define, if necessary, the treatment.
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