Journal Sleep

I was running low on ideas today, so I googled sleep in the news, and I came across an interesting piece called "Regional Fat Distribution and Sleep Apnea: Sex Makes a Difference" by Renata L. Riha from Journal Sleep. Riha, from the department of sleep medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland talks about morbid obesity and sleep apnea. Morbid obesity is present in 60-90% of people with obstructive sleep apnea. What Riha found was that it was in females, rather than males, that "neck fat distribution was the most significant contributor" to sleep apnea. She also found that reliance on BMI (body mass index) is completely oversimplified and that doctors need to consider many other possibilities and each person's anatomy when discussing sleep-disorder related breathing.

There's some science for you. I learned something. Did you?