Bariatric

Sleep Apnea is a condition in which patients stop or decrease their #breathing due to an obstruction in their respiratory air flow that occurs while they are asleep.

The fat around the tongue and the soft tissues in the pharynx decrease the air flow to the trachea; when the patient falls asleep, the tone of the nasopharyngeal muscle decreases, which restricts or obstructs the airways.

Loss of BMI is a treatment to reduce and relieve long-term symptoms. A loss of 10 to 20% of the body’s BMI can reduce the apnea-hypopnea (IAH) rate by 26%.