I was unaware of this. Good, now I have something to do at work today! My AHI is up to 10 but my AI is still down around 1.8. I need to get back over to cpaptalk to figure this out. As far as I understand, the AHI is all events (snoring, etc) and the AI is apneas, so this would be the one I want to keep low.
Dmitriy Kruglyak (creator of trusted.md) asked me in December to listen to a webinar put out by the drug company Cephalon on their sleep apnea / narcolepsy drug, Provigil, and to blog about it. As you can see, I’m a little behind in my commitments! Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition that affects 18 million Americans, and is linked to heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, depression, liver disease, not to mention various cognitive impairments, so beyond the obvious problems of fatigue and inability to function well due to lack of sleep, sleep apnea has far-reaching health consequences. Good sleep is one of the foundational health principles of everything – one simply CANNOT be healthy without adequate sleep.
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