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Video What happens during obstructive sleep apnea
Products and services When you breathe, air travels down your throat, through your windpipe and into your lungs.
The narrowest part of that pathway is in the back of your throat. When you're awake, muscles keep that pathway relatively wide open. But when you sleep, those muscles relax, allowing the opening to narrow.
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Hannah Kim 10 minutes ago
The air passing through this narrowed opening may cause the throat to vibrate. That causes snoring, ...
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Hannah Kim 4 minutes ago
But in some people, the throat closes so much that enough air can't get through to the lungs. When t...
The air passing through this narrowed opening may cause the throat to vibrate. That causes snoring, which many people experience.
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Sofia Garcia 1 minutes ago
But in some people, the throat closes so much that enough air can't get through to the lungs. When t...
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Noah Davis 2 minutes ago
The brain quickly reactivates the muscles that hold the throat open, air gets through again, and the...
But in some people, the throat closes so much that enough air can't get through to the lungs. When this happens, the brain sends an alarm to open the airway. Most often this is associated with a brief arousal from sleep.
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Audrey Mueller 4 minutes ago
The brain quickly reactivates the muscles that hold the throat open, air gets through again, and the...
The brain quickly reactivates the muscles that hold the throat open, air gets through again, and the brain goes back to sleep. This disorder is called obstructive sleep apnea. ShareTweet May 21, 2019 Show references Sleep apnea.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/SleepApnea/SleepApnea_WhatIs.html.
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