General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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VVV
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by VVV » Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:48 am
Count me lifelong thin and in athletic condition.
Maybe the science has not caught up yet, but I am betting this post is very close to the truth:
The Choker wrote:60% of people with OSA are BMI < 25 which is normal weight or smaller.
Some doctor wrote a book and had some catchy sayings in it. One of them was, "It is not the size of the neck on the outside, it is the size of the airway inside the neck."
Poorly developed airways are the cause of almost all cases of OSA.
Be careful to get cause and effect in the right order. It is often the case that a slim person has OSA which makes him into a couch potato and throws off his hormones so he gets fat. Then they may get a diagnosis.
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by Sludge » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:05 am
VVV wrote:Maybe the science has not caught up yet, but I am betting this post is very close to the truth:
The Choker wrote:60% of people with OSA are BMI < 25 which is normal weight or smaller.
You'd lose BAD:
Of these factors, obesity (BMI > 30) is the most important because it is present in roughly 70% of patients with (OSA)
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by BlackSpinner » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:09 am
Sludge wrote:
You'd lose BAD:
Of these factors, obesity (BMI > 30) is the most important because it is present in roughly 70% of patients with (OSA)
But did they have OSA before they got fat? Yes over 50% did. So you need to catch those people before the damage is done.
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by Sludge » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:26 am
BlackSpinner wrote:But did they have OSA before they got fat? Yes over 50% did.
Do you have that reference? I think it would have to be viewed in context with:
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by BlackSpinner » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:41 am
The info was part of a weight loss surgery study. Only 49% got off cpap after weight loss. I will try to look for the link. It was posted here in a thread by the way.
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by Kitatonic » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:23 pm
Before diagnosed, I was losing weight, in spite of decades of being underweight, endurance athlete. I developed insulin resistance which seems to have resolved after a few years of PAP treatment, plus my weight increased to a more normal level. OSA definitely alters the metabolic hormones, and some like me, probably have a paradoxical response.
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by scott784 » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:39 pm
I am about 25 pounds over weight. However, when I was first diagnosed with severe sleep apnea (sleep study) going on 1 1/2 years ago, I was only over weight by about 10 pounds.
I intend to get the weight off this year for lots of health reasons. However, I am convinced that being overweight is not a prerequisite for being diagnosed with sleep apnea. In my particular case, my suspicion is that I've had sleep apnea for many years; and it's just gradually gotten worse as I've gotten older.
