Lose weight can help obese people as well as their partners to sleep better by facilitating the obstructive symptoms of sleep apnea.
A new study confirms that weight loss can improve significantly and potentially eliminate obstructive symptoms of obese people sleep apnea.
The researchers have found that people with severe obstructive sleep apnea that have lost the recommended amount of weight were three times more likely to experience a complete remission of sleep apnea symptoms compared to people who did not lose weight .
"These results show that doctors, as well as patients, can expect a significant improvement in their sleep apnea with weight loss", researcher Gary Foster, director of the research and education center of obesity University of the Temple, says in a news release. "And a reduction in sleep apnea has a number of health benefits and general well-being."
Obstructive sleep apnea is more common in overweight people and obesity. The sleep disorder causes high break and sleep disturbances as a result of the airway, becoming temporarily blocked during sleep. If untreated, obstructive sleep apnea can also increase the risk of high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease.
Although doctors have been very advised with overweight people with sleep apnea to lose at least 10% of their body weight to improve their condition, there has been little research to back up this advice.
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In the study, published in the files of internal medicine, the researchers analyzed the effect of weight loss in obstructive sleep apnea in 264 obese adults with Type 2 diabetes.
Participants were randomly divided into two groups. A group received a weight loss program with diets controlled by portions and an exercise program of 175 minutes of exercise per week. The second group did not receive any weight loss counseling and participated in a diabetes management program.
After one year, the weight loss group lost an average of 24 pounds; The second group lost little more than 1 pound.
Those in the weight loss group were three times more likely to experience a remission of their obstructive symptoms of sleep apnea (13.6% vs. 3.5%) and had about half of the cases of severe sleep apnea as the second group.
In addition, the study showed that people in the second group experienced an aggravation of their sleep apnea symptoms.
Foster says that these results show this weight loss can significantly reduce the symptoms of obstructive sleep and untreated apnea that the sleep disorder can progress quickly.
