Restless Nights : Understanding Snoring and Sleep Apnea

by Peretz Lavie; Translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris

• ISBN13: 9780300085440
• ISBN10: 0300085443
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-07-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

An authority in sleep research tells us everything we need to know about sleep apnea --its history, symptoms, risks, and treatment. An engaging book that is a "must read" for every snorer. People with severe sleep apnea may struggle for breath all through the night, not breathing for as long as ninety seconds at a time during their sleep. This syndrome, which affects at least four percent of men and two percent of women, can cause daytime fatigue, traffic and work accidents, deteriorating cognitive abilities, and cardiovascular problems. Yet until now there has been no accessible discussion of the history, physiology, and risk factors of sleep apnea. In this book Peretz Lavie, an expert in sleep research, tells the complete story of sleep apnea for the first time. In this engaging and historically rich book, we discover the prevalence of sleep apnea, its ability to disrupt our everyday lives, and its key role as a major risk factor for hypertension, heart disease, an

Author Biography

Peretz Lavie is the Andre Ballard Professor of Biological Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 The Breath of Life	1	(12)
2 Respiratory Control	13	(8)
3 The First Pickwickian	21	(16)
4 Rediscovery of the Pickwickian Patient	37	(16)
5 Western Innovations	53	(11)
6 The Dog Dropped Off and the Experiment Woke Up	64	(15)
7 From an Exotic Syndrome to a Public Health Issue	79	(11)
8 Risk Factors for Sleep Apnea	90	(25)
9 The Syndrome's Symptoms	115	(11)
10 The Price of Awakenings	126	(9)
11 At the Temple of Morpheus	135	(16)
12 Children and Sleep Apnea	151	(15)
13 Sleep Apnea, the Heart, and the Blood Vessels	166	(13)
14 From Baroreceptors to Free Radicals	179	(9)
15 Death at an Early Age and the Paradox of Old Age	188	(7)
16 Treatments for Sleep Apnea Syndrome	195	(17)
17 Sleeping Under Pressure-The Big Promise	212	(15)
18 A Whole New Understanding	227	(14)
References	241	(12)
Index	253