Comment by nightowl_games
Comment by nightowl_games 4 days ago
Sleep apnea is not completely due to being overweight.
Comment by nightowl_games 4 days ago
Sleep apnea is not completely due to being overweight.
But it’s not that rare in non-obese people, I think is the point. Obesity is certainly a risk factor.
When I arrived at the sleep clinic with a BMI of 22, the first thing they told me was: there are lots of people with sleep apnea who have a healthy weight, including children.
The notion that sleep apnea is generally caused by weight needs to die. People also conveniently forget that being woken up multiple times every hour causes weight gain, so often times being overweight is the consequence of sleep apnea rather than the cause.
Hence their qualifier “rarity.”