Study Finds that Dementia Has Links to Sleep Apnea
by Rudolph Yap in Beauty & Wellness on Aug 24, 2011
According to a latest study about elderly women, a curable disorder which is the cause of people’s temporary pause of breathing while sleeping may direct to cognitive destruction and even dementia. This is a somewhat a very familiar disorder, the “sleep apnea”.
The researchers at UCSF in California Pacific Medical Center, who are the publishers of the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association today said that women with regular or normal sleeping practices are probable do have the most possibilities of developing troubles of cognition in 5 years. These women are than most of the women in such study with other disorders in sleeping or especially the disorder of sleep apnea that can cause breathing stop momentarily.
Sleep apnea and other disorders in sleeping have been connected very long with dementia particularly and failure of memory and this study is one of the most strong suggestions that this trouble in sleeping may be the reason and not the result of the cognitive destruction.
Dr. Kristine Yaffe, a university lecturer of neurology, psychiatry and epidemiology at UCSF which was the one who managed the study thought that the degree of the information has been inadequate before because of the reason that the experiments were
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