Tag Archive | "diagnosis"

sleep apnea

Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds A Simple, No-Cost Solution

The lab technician who watched me all night via video feed told me that I had “wicked sleep apnea” and that it was “central sleep apnea,” a type that originates in the brain and fails to tell the muscles to inhale.

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Don’t Delay Alzheimer’s Talk: Early Diagnosis Makes A Big Difference

After 30 years of painting commercial buildings, Mario Martinez of San Jose, California, had experienced days like this before, grueling hours under a sun-soaked sky, doing back-breaking work.

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Blood Test Is Fairly Accurate At Identifying Early Alzheimer’s

Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up in their brains.

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Why Alzheimer’s Risk For Women Differs From Men

Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases in the U.S. are in women and it’s not just because we live longer.

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How Soon Is Soon Enough To Learn You Have Alzheimer’s?

Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service.

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Alzheimer’s: Body Clock Disruptions Occur Years Before Memory Loss

New research indicates that circadian rhythm disruptions occur much earlier in people whose memories are intact but whose brain scans show early, preclinical evidence of Alzheimer’s.

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