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Tired All the Time? It May be Sleep Apnea

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 General News
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MONTVALE, N.J., Aug. 20 Repetitive blockages of the airway, called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), can reduce airflow or cause breathing to stop. When this happens, frequent brief awakenings can leave a person feeling excessively sleepy during the day, even though they believe they have had a full night's sleep. More serious consequences, including obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes -- are often related to OSA. Primary care physicians must be able to recognize symptoms of OSA and counsel their patients to provide optimal treatment.
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To make clinicians aware of the importance of proper diagnosis and management of OSA, The Journal of Family Practice published a 32-page supplement in August 2008, Obstructive sleep apnea: Recognition and management in primary care. This multi-authored supplement discusses recognition of OSA, its economic and societal burden, clinical consequences, and treatment options.
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The Journal of Family Practice, an indexed and peer-reviewed journal distributed to 96,000 family physicians, has published Obstructive sleep apnea: Recognition and management in primary care with support from Cephalon, Inc. It is available in print and can be found online at: http://www.jfponline.com/supplements.asp?id=6507 .



Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can find this supplement on www.apctoday.com, an online resource for advanced practice clinicians.



The Journal of Family Practice is published by Dowden Health Media, a Division of Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. APCTODAY is copyrighted by Dowden Health Media, a Division of Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. Dowden Health Media is a full-service healthcare communications company that specializes in high-quality communication with physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and consumers. Its highly respected, peer-reviewed journals reach more than 300,000 physicians and clinicians in surgery, psychiatry, family practice, internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology.



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