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Sleep Medicine

What is Sleep Apnea?

Posted in: Sleep Medicine | April 30, 2017

Sleep Apnea is the cessation of the air flow while sleeping due to collapse of your throat.  This causes decrease in oxygen in your body,  because of which you try to open your throat and in doing so you wake up. You then finally open the throat and  fall back to sleep. Most of the time you might not even know that you woke up as you wake up for micro second just enough to open your throat and Read More

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