Word: apnea
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...This Island Earth--the whole thing, ruthlessly pared down, lasts only 73 minutes--but watching it in a crowd offers a different high. As the gags pile up remorselessly, and the viewer strains to keep up with the story line and the cutting subtext, a furious but benign apnea takes hold. You can't enjoy a good long laugh because you'll miss too much; you must let it explode in short blasts. It's the happiest form of internal injury...
...Pediatrics. Fitzpatrick first read the paper eight years ago while preparing an infanticide case in order to familiarize himself with possible causes of SIDS. In the report, Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, now president of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute in Atlanta, proposed that a genetic defect could cause prolonged apnea, or breaks in breathing during a baby's sleep, and lead to SIDS. He bolstered his thesis with detailed accounts of the death of five babies in one unidentified family. Medical examiner Linda Norton, who passed the paper along to Fitzpatrick, ! offered an intriguing remark: "She said...
Since the Hoyt case and similarly suspicious ones form much of the evidence for Steinschneider's theory that SIDS runs in families, that theory is being called into question, and along with it, the value of so-called apnea monitoring in preventing SIDS. Steinschneider's findings have supported the idea that families who have lost one baby to SIDS can avoid losing subsequent children by hooking up sleeping infants to devices that set off an alarm when the gaps between breaths become too long...
SOME PEOPLE GET A MISERABLE NIGHT'S SLEEP AND don't even know it. But for a debilitating grogginess the day after, they haven't a clue that they passed the wee hours dozing, then waking, then dozing again. The disorder is called sleep apnea, and according to University of Wisconsin researchers, millions of Americans have...
...sleeper gasps for air and rouses briefly. In a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 4% of women and 9% of men stopped breathing at least 15 times an hour during a night's sleep. Because they are seldom fully awake, most apnea sufferers are unaware that their sleep is disrupted. The only clue may come from a bed partner whose own rest is disturbed by the breathing fits and starts. Besides cutting down on productivity, experts believe, apnea contributes to car and job accidents and may be a factor in strokes and heart...