People with sleep apnea who spend less time in deep sleep are more likely to have brain health problems that could lead to dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or a stroke, a new stud warns.
, researcher Diego Z. Carvalho, MD, said the findings were “important since there is no treatment for these changes in the brain, so we need to find ways to prevent them from happening or getting worse.”, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, and included 140 people diagnosed with sleep apnea whose average age was 73 years old. The researchers analyzed data from MRIs of the people’s brains and from overnight sleep studies.
Reduced deep sleep was directly related to how old people’s brains appeared to be. The less time someone spent in deep sleep, the older their brains looked. The people in the study had the most common type of sleep apnea, called obstructive sleep apnea. The condition results in blocked airflow into or out of the mouth or nose, even when someone is trying to breathe.: “Association of Polysomnographic Sleep Parameters With Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults With Sleep Apnea.”© 2023 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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