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Hi, i wonder if the continuous use of cellular phones might be the cause of the sleep apnea; since they are claiming that cellular phones do affect the four phase of sleep and other symptoms similar to the ones seeing in sleep apnea patients. We should push for more studies related to cell phones and sleep apnea; it might be the key to this epidemic problem; do you use a cellular phone? i do, and i carry with me the whole day.

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i wonder if the continuous use of cellular phones might be the cause of the sleep apnea

The cell phones might well contribute to some sleep issues with those very sensitive persons, but as far as being the cause of apnea they couldn't be.  OS Apnea is caused by a physical obstruction in the throat area.

I carry a phone everywhere but hardly ever use it.  I really dislike it, but have one for emergency's not for business or social chit chat.


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To PJ,
Thanks for the link, and all the recently posted studies and articles!

melhajj wrote:

Hi, i wonder if the continuous use of cellular phones might be the cause of the sleep apnea; since they are claiming that cellular phones do affect the four phase of sleep and other symptoms similar to the ones seeing in sleep apnea patients. We should push for more studies related to cell phones and sleep apnea; it might be the key to this epidemic problem; do you use a cellular phone? i do, and i carry with me the whole day.

Hi melhajj,

That is an interesting question; it's always good to consider environmental issues. Some of the evidence against the theory is:
 - credit for the first description of a person with sleep apnea is often given to Charles Dickens, for his description of an overweight sleepy boy in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837). The phrase Pickwickian was used in the 1950's to describe  people who are believed to have had sleep apnea.  
 - milestone research was conducted in sleep apnea during the 1970s
 - sleep apnea has probably been a problem throughout history as the description of people who snore and fall asleep during the day is very common.

So sleep apnea has probably been prevalent before the use of cell phones. It's the diagnosis, treatment and awareness of it that is new.

Still it would be interesting to see further research in how cell phones effect sleep, as you suggested.

Guest MJ

we can not discard the idea that cellular phones might be causing more cases of sleep apnea; we know that obstructive sleep apnea is produced by the obtruction of the tongue rolling back and blocking the airways, that is an effect but not a cause; but, what is causing the tongue to roll back? that is the key issue that i am wondering about; in other words and connecting all this issue, why sleep phases are altered when cellular phones are close to people? why suddenly people start rolling back their tongue? according to my past tests when my cholesterol levels and c reactive protein were within normal and i still did snore but not as loud and as constant as i do now (before the use of the cpap mask) i believe i did not have at that time sleep apnea, but, for a couple of months ago, when i was diagnosed with sleep apnea my cholesterol levels climbed as well as the c reactive protein, even my blood pressure went high; it sounds to me, as dr. mark liponis says in his book called Ultralongevity, that there is an inflammatory response of the body due to the apnea episodes; what is interesting about his book is his treatment which he claims there have been very good results at lowering the so dangerous c reactive protein; if any of you have the chance of reading his book, i can assure you that you will get a great deal of benefits; i am wondering if there is a way of getting more information about his treatment. Best regards to everybody.

Hi melhajj,

We agree that it would be good if there was more research about what causes sleep apnea.

It can be difficult to determine when someone developed sleep apnea, because sleep-disordered breathing can develop gradually over time, and people can have the condition without snoring. The causes are complicated, and some answers are unknown. There is a discussion of some of the factors involved in this article Physiopathology of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. The full article is free and available via the link:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132007000100017&tlng=en&lng=en&nrm=iso

Researchers believe that there is also a neurological component involved in obstructive sleep apnea, but the specifics are still unknown.

Hopefully research will find answers that will help us.

Best regards,
Guest MJ

Great article Guest MJ!!


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Friedrich must of had apnea.