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Entering a New Era in Sleep-Apnea Treatment

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TL:DR 50% reduction in AHI (apnea-hypoxia index) and a lowering of blood pressure (which may reduce risk of stroke and heart attack!)

Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the most common respiratory disorders worldwide. Persons with obstructive sleep apnea can have loud snoring that is detrimental to social relationships and have breathing problems that result in recurrent nocturnal awakenings, unrefreshing sleep, and excessive daytime sleepiness — effects that together can substantially impair quality of life.

The improvement in systolic blood pressure that was seen with tirzepatide was substantially larger than effects seen with CPAP therapy alone7 and indicate that tirzepatide may be an attractive option for those patients who seek to reduce their cardiovascular risk

The initial results from the SURMOUNT-OSA trial show the usefulness of tirzepatide as an adjunctive treatment to address coexisting obesity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Weight loss resulting from tirzepatide treatment may be leveraged to expand the populations that may benefit from second-line treatments for obstructive sleep apnea.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2407117

How to detect sleep apnea with Apple Watch

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It’s quick and easy to set up sleep apnea detection. It is done from your iPhone.

• Open the Health app on your iPhone

• Go to Browse and search for “breathing disturbances”

• The first time you’ll see a button at the top that says “set up”

• Answer a couple qualifying questions and hit continue

• The app gives you a brief explainer, after which you can hit next

Viewing your sleep apnea results

As soon as your first night you’ll see your results reflected in the Health app. If it detects an elevated level of breathing disturbances, it will proactively send you an alert.

If you want to view the data for yourself, you can open the Health app once more and navigate back to breathing disturbances. It will show each night’s results on a graph on a scale from not elevated to elevated. You can view it for each night or over time. To be clear, if a positive detection is triggered, it’s not diagnosing you with anything. The data can be exported and shared with your health care provider where they can make a further diagnosis.

https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-watch/tips/how-to-detect-sleep-apnea-with-apple-watch