Uncontrolled sleep apnea — a disorder in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time, multiple times a night — may harm future brain health, a new study found.
It's estimated 936 million adults worldwide between the ages of 30 and 69 may suffer from sleep apnea, with many more people undiagnosed. If the sleep apnea is severe and untreated, people have three times the risk of dying from any cause.
"The association with sleep apnea was only unveiled when we isolated severe cases, suggesting that mild to moderate sleep apnea may not be significantly associated with white matter changes," he said. About 34% of the participants had mild sleep apnea, 32% had moderate and 34% had severe sleep apnea. With sleep apnea, oxygen drops, and carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure and heart rate rise, Carvalho said.
Dementia caused by vascular disease is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, experts say. "Having white matter disease isn't a 'good' thing, but how clinically meaningful it is is hard to judge — generally speaking less is more, but that doesn't always translate into clinical symptoms," said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study.
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