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McCamy Taylor
ASIN: B00LS9K5GG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 57

In this sequel to "Life After CPAP", McCamy Taylor describes her experience as a family physician at a large, urban public health clinic that she calls "XYZ Health" that decided to cut costs by eliminating sleep studies and CPAP. In the opinion of XYZ administrators, too many sleep studies were being ordered on normal people and too many people were non-compliant with their CPAP treatment. The ban on diagnosing and treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea--a condition that affects an estimated one in ten adults over 40 and which, if left untreated can lead to heart disease, stroke, car wrecks and renal failure---had unintended consequences. Severe, untreated sleep apnea causes blood pressure to rise and makes diabetes difficult to control. It increases the appetite, causing weight gain. It causes anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and depression. Untreated OSA sufferers have three times ...
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5 stars from 3 ratings