robysue wrote:After all, OSA is a progressive chronic condition.
And like, oh, say, cancer, there are no natural regressions?
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Oops, bad example.
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OK, sorry, I meant coronary hear disease (CHD).
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Damn, there I go again.
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IMHO, we must all catch ourselves, when, on the basis of some very limited studies we proclaim that "osa IS this, or osa IS that."
OSA has not been studied with anything resembling either the time frame, controls, or population numbers that either cancer or CHD have had applied to them. They have had literally billion of dollars poured into every aspect imaginable, tens of thousands of studies across the world.
And yet, in both those two heavily-mined fields, the perception of what was "so" shifted dramatically over time.
I think it's almost a given that the same evolution of thinking will apply to OSA.
Does anybody here really believe that we will
not see a dramatic turn of events regarding OSA during the next twenty years?
That somehow OSA is exempt from a (God, I hate this phrase, but here it is:) paradigm change?
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IMHO, there is no way you should be giving anyone definitive "no chance" odds on the likelihood that their OSA may have abated.
It either has, or it hasn't.
Just my opinion.
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