HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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NEW JERSEY COPS
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FEBRUARY 2015
Get some sleep
If sleep apnea is keeping you up at night, Dr. Young has the device to help
n BY MITCHELL KRUGEL
Dr. John Young, DDS, recalls that sleepless night.
Approximately 10 years ago, his
incessant snoring compelled his wife and
doctor to recommend he do a sleep study,
one of those procedures in which you
spend a night at the hospital or a sleep
study center hooked up to a machine that
tracks amount of deep sleep (or dream
sleep), breathing and causes for snoring.
The study, Dr. Young reports,
determined he had Obstructive Sleep
Apnea, which is a complete obstruction of
the airway while sleeping with no air entering the lungs. It causes breathing to stop
and start repeatedly during the course of
the night.
“According to the study, I stopped
breathing 46 times per hour,” h H^ Z[