10 Feb OSA and Sleep Deprivation
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes repetitive partial or complete obstruction of the upper airways during sleep. Chronic sleep deprivation is linked to OSA and has significant adverse effects on health and overall quality of life and studies have shown that chronically sleep-deprived individuals had significantly lower reported markers of quality of life. A person who lacks adequate sleep will commonly endorse symptoms of sleep loss, such as excessive daytime sleepiness, poor concentration, fatigue, moodiness, and decreased libido, among other symptoms.
Individuals affected by OSA experience the negative effects of apnea–hypopnea episodes through poor quality of overnight sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness(EDS), and associated symptoms such as fatigue, lack of concentration, and poor work efficiency.
Sleep loss and chronic sleep deprivation are associated with serious medical conditions such as diabetes mellitus & insulin resistance, hypertension, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, depression, and anxiety.It is essential to realize that the body has many of the same physiological markers in chronic sleep deprivation as it does with its many comorbid conditions. Many of these physiological states provide the causal link between sleep deprivation and these other psychiatric and medical conditions.