Study: To sleep better, perchance to live longer

August 2, 2008 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer

(AP) -- Shakespeare once called sleep the "balm of hurt minds." Bodies, too, apparently. People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Sleep.


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LDSang
Aug 04, 2008

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Interesting article, but I question the logic of the introductory paragraph: If everyone will eventually die from "any cause," then how can those with severe sleep apnea have an increased chance of this inevitability?
deepsand
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There is a distinction between present risk and future risk. The article clearly addresses the former, by way of mention of life spans & death rates.
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