A sleep specialist and an endocrinologist discuss ways to engage patients in difficult conversations and shared decision-making to better manage the related conditions of sleep apnea and obesity.

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What Is Obstructive Sleep Apnea? Obstructive sleep apnea ... or a small lower jaw that causes your throat to be too narrow, surgery might help you. Doctors usually try other treatments first.

Children with sleep-disordered breathing had lower health care use after tonsil removal. Those who had surgery had fewer skin- or pain-related conditions, likely because of decreased inflammation.

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Patients were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) if their apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was ≥5. Using the PSG monitoring results, patients were classified into two distinct groups: the OSA ...

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The experts consulted for this story do not necessarily endorse the products ahead unless otherwise noted. Sleep apnea — a disorder in which one’s breathing is interrupted for seconds or minutes at a ...