Posted on 11/11/2021 1:56:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
The following is a summary of some recent studies on Covid-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review.
Severe sleep apnoea tied to severe Covid-19
The risk of severe illness from Covid-19 is higher in people with obstructive sleep apnoea and other breathing problems that cause oxygen levels to drop during sleep, researchers say. They tracked 5,402 adults with these problems and found that roughly a third of them eventually tested posted for the coronavirus.
While the chance of being infected did not increase with the severity of their problems, people with higher scores on the "apnoea-hypopnia index" - a measure of the severity of their sleep-related breathing problems - had higher odds of needing to be hospitalised or dying from Covid-19, Drs. Cinthya Pena Orbea and Reena Mehra of the Cleveland Clinic and colleagues reported on Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
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Since that is a breathing issue that would make sense.
Yes. People with breathing difficulty may be more prone to having breathing difficulty. They did a study.
They speculated that people with asthma would get it worse, but many of them haven’t, possibly because of the medication they take for their asthma.
Well duh since the vast majority of sleep apnea sufferers are obese, and obesity is the single largest danger in Covid outcomes.
CPAP user and WuFlu survivor here. It was like a bad cold. I took the horse dewormer.
Sleep apnea is highly correlated to being obese. Being obese is a top comorbidity seen in patients with bad Covid outcomes. I guess researching obvious correlations is how one makes money as a researcher.
Darn it! I hate it when I test “posted” for…well, anything actually.
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Autocorrect is not our friend.
You guess? Perhaps you should apply for a research grant to look into it...
That was one of my risk factors for covid mortality 11 months ago. I have the machine which I use every night without fail, for 25 years at least. Covid was a cake walk.
“I took the horse dewormer.”
Isn’t that like, cheating?
Another correlation with sleep apnea is a-fib. This heart condition is also a comorbidty with covid. After years of living with a-fib they finally discovered that I had sleep apnea. (very severe) They found this when I went to the ER with respiratory failure. (%O2 down to 75%.)
I have been progressing back to some form of health since then using O2 at night and a ventilator. But all these symptoms are correlated and yes, I am also over weight. The hospital tested me for covid but I was negative.
My main point is that one of my doctors could have asked for a sleep study ten years earlier. This is something I would recommend to anyone who has to get up several times each night supposedly to pee. After getting the ventilator (sort of an advanced CPAP device) I only get up once per night.
That is great info and I hope everyone listens about the sleep study - I think it’s very important for a lot of people.
“Isn’t that like, cheating?”
It is, but I feel great. Totally worm free. The downside is the odd craving for a bag of oats.
bttt
The reason I have sleep apnea was not obesity or atrial fibrillation, but as a results of a stroke. Essentially as I understand their explanation, the brain “forgets” to send a signal to breathe while sleeping, up to (in my case) 100 times an hour, so one wakes up frequently, gasping for breath. With the BPAP machine, I am down to about 10, which allows sleep.
Obstructive sleep sufferers have lower levels of Nitric Oxide. Lower levels of NO often raise blood pressure. And COVID's cytokine storm in a HBP patient, you could have an apnea sufferer succumb to a dysrhythmia, say, brought on by the koof, before the 'shattered glass' pneumonia eliminates your O2 cycle.
I had 90 O2 drops in a two hour period. I was told that 3 is OK and 30 is the indication of severe obstructive sleep apnea. In my case, it crept up on me due to weight gain and a-fib came on at the same time. Before this crisis I was a long distance runner and soccer player (and high school coach). I tested with CPAP and BPAP and failed both tests — the hospital authorized a ventilator and the AVAP approach and now I sleep with perhaps one wake up per night. I use a checkme device at night and it records to my phone. I usually stay at about 93 % with drops to 89 %. But as I said, usually only about 3 drops per hour and I do not wake up out of breath. My system just wakes up and then I open my airways which try to relax in a closed position. So my symptom was that I could not fall asleep when actually I was falling asleep 45 times an hour and waking up immediately.
Yes, brain injury can send the wrong signals to our hearts and lungs. You might look at the AVAP devices if they can be provided on your insurance. They are very forgiving as far as falling asleep with a gentle pressure increase and they try for a regular tidal lung setting as an average. Thanks for your info. KC
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