what is the mortality rate for patients with severe sleep apnea?
___ out of ____ people die from severe sleep apnea. (or any other statistics about mortality rate)
what is the life expectancy with proper treatment?
Tagged with: life expectancy • mortality rate • sleep • sleep apnea • statistics
Filed under: Sleep Apnea Symptoms
There is a lot of undiagnosed sleep apnea out there so your first question is difficult to answer. People who fall asleep at the wheel because of sleep apnea and die in a crash would be in a different statistics. People who die of heart disease because of damage from high bp caused by sleep apnea fall in a different category.
You second question is also difficult to answer. It depends on when the person was diagnosed and what is their co morbidity’s. Does treatment save lives, I would say definitely. It saved mine. I was diagnosed in my 30s and am 100 percent compliant.
As of my knowledge there is no statistics as such. It all depends how severe sleep apnea is and how far complications of sleep apnea have been developed. And again if direct complication of your sleep apnea is high blood pressure, well, this is bad but many people live pretty long life with it. Of course risk of getting stroke of heart attack is much greater, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get it. If complication of your sleep apnea is cardiomyopathy or congestive heart failure – then your perspective is not that bright to say the least.