Learning About Sleep Apnea
Dr. Jonathan Fialkow, Deputy Chief of Cardiology at Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, explains there are many sleep disturbances that can affect the body and the heart, but sleep apnea is the most serious one. "It's very prevalent but also most people don't even know they have it and a lot of doctors aren't screening for it," he says.
He points out when you are not having proper sleep it can have consequences and sleep apnea is a condition where when we breathe into sleep, the muscles relax and close-off, so the body is trying to inhale against a closed airway causing metabolic and physiological abnormalities.
