Untreated Sleep Apnea Proven to Impair Driving

Oct. 6, 2009 - PRLog -- In the new study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Australian researchers used driving-simulation tests to see how 38 people with untreated OSA compared with 20 healthy people in their driving skills. Drivers with OSA had more trouble staying in their driving lane and were more likely to crash during the 90-minute virtual trip than their healthy counterparts. If you wake up tired, you many suffer from sleep apnea, learn the symptoms at http://www.ihatecpap.com.

Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, is a disorder in which the tissues at the back of the throat temporarily collapse during sleep, causing repeated stops and starts in breathing during the night. This leads to poor-quality sleep and, often, daytime drowsiness.

The current findings suggest that people with OSA should be especially cautious, particularly when they will have to drive for more than an hour, according to lead researcher Andrew Vakulin, of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health.

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