Word: apnea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SNOOZE ALARM Talk about a drunken stupor. Doctors say not getting enough sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...
...effort to alert people to the risk of ignoring unexplained fatigue, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine is launching an educational campaign this week that will highlight three of the more common medical causes: thyroid disorders, depression and sleep apnea (a condition often characterized by snoring). "Baby boomers especially want to blame everything on their environment--their jobs, their kids, the stress of living in the '90s," says Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, who has just been elected president of the organization. But, she adds, you have to be alert to other possibilities as well, particularly after...
...This Island Earth--the whole thing, ruthlessly pared down, lasts only 73 minutes--but watching it in a crowd offers a different high. As the gags pile up remorselessly, and the viewer strains to keep up with the story line and the cutting subtext, a furious but benign apnea takes hold. You can't enjoy a good long laugh because you'll miss too much; you must let it explode in short blasts. It's the happiest form of internal injury...
...Pediatrics. Fitzpatrick first read the paper eight years ago while preparing an infanticide case in order to familiarize himself with possible causes of SIDS. In the report, Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, now president of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute in Atlanta, proposed that a genetic defect could cause prolonged apnea, or breaks in breathing during a baby's sleep, and lead to SIDS. He bolstered his thesis with detailed accounts of the death of five babies in one unidentified family. Medical examiner Linda Norton, who passed the paper along to Fitzpatrick, ! offered an intriguing remark: "She said...
Since the Hoyt case and similarly suspicious ones form much of the evidence for Steinschneider's theory that SIDS runs in families, that theory is being called into question, and along with it, the value of so-called apnea monitoring in preventing SIDS. Steinschneider's findings have supported the idea that families who have lost one baby to SIDS can avoid losing subsequent children by hooking up sleeping infants to devices that set off an alarm when the gaps between breaths become too long...