Looks like somebody needs a sleep study

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‘Jeopardy!’ host Trebek suffers heart attack
Game show icon ‘resting comfortably’; he’ll reportedly be back for tapings
The Associated Press
updated 2:00 p.m. CT, Tues., Dec. 11, 2007

LOS ANGELES - Longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said.

Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter.

“Thankfully it was a minor heart attack,” Ritter said. He did not give other details.

A post on the official “Jeopardy!” Web site said Trebek was “resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January.” His heart attack was first reported by “Entertainment Tonight.”

The Canadian-born Trebek has hosted the syndicated show since 1984. He has won several daytime Emmy Awards for his work and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Trebek escaped a car crash unhurt in 2004 when he fell asleep at the wheel, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and wound up in a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Check back with msnbc.com for updates on this developing story.
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the article wrote:Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation

And will it occur to his cardiologist or ANYone on his medical team that maybe, just maybe, one of the tests and "observation" should be a PSG sleep study?

Of course not.

the article wrote:Trebek escaped a car crash unhurt in 2004 when he fell asleep at the wheel, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and wound up in a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Should have been done then -- a PSG -- and maybe, just maybe, he'd have escaped the heart attack he's had now. Geeze.

The continued ignorance out in the medical world about what OSA can do is appalling.

Thanks for the link, Jeff!