Sleep-Disordered Breathing Linked to Cognitive Impairment

Guess who tends to have sleep-disordered breathing?

Fatsos.

Who also tend to have cognitive impairment.

Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with a significantly increased risk for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia in elderly women, results of a prospective study indicate.

The relationship seems to be related primarily to measures of hypoxia rather than sleep fragmentation or sleep duration, Kristine Yaffe, MD, of University of California, San Francisco and colleagues note in the August 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

As in sleep apnea.