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Sleep Apnea Types, Mixed Apnea

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Mixed apnea is a combination of central and obstructive apnea. Most people with sleep apnea probably have some form of mixed apnea. In fact, some sleep researchers believe that most if not all obstructive sleep apnea has a central apnea component and that some abnormality in the breathing reflex in the brain usually accompanies the [...]

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Sleep Apnea Types, Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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In obstructive sleep apnea the upper airway is blocked during sleep by the tissue of the soft palate, throat, and/or tongue. In earlier articles we explained that this blockage can result from a combination of anatomic factors and irregularities in the breathing reflex.
Unlike the patient with central apnea, who simply stops breathing, the person with [...]

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Sleep Apnea Types, Central Apnea

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Pure central apnea is the least common of the three types of sleep apnea. In central apnea the cause of the breathing problem is in the brain, or central nervous system; thus the term central apnea. In a person with central apnea the respiratory center in the brain that controls breathing may simply stop working [...]

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Sleep Apnea, Case Study – Typical Mixed Apnea Event

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Mr. Kennedy crawls into bed and turns out the light. He immediately falls asleep and begins to snore softly. His wife stuffs earplugs into her ears and wills herself to fall asleep quickly, before her husband really starts to snore. She reaches over and shakes his elbow.
“Roll over,” she reminds him.
He complies, turns onto his [...]

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