What causes sleep apnoea?

什么导致了睡眠呼吸暂停？

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This time they claimed that "neural inhibition" causes sleep.

这次，他们宣称是“神经抑制”引发睡眠。

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This causes sleep to be disrupted repeatedly by short, unremembered awakenings that may create life-threatening health problems.

这使得睡眠不断受到短暂觉醒的干扰(人们醒后却不记得)，可能产生一些危及生命的健康问题。

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The disease causes sleep disorders, mental confusion,personality changes, speech problems,seizures and coma.

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PTSD often causes severe sleep problems.

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This includes treatment for 80% of the 250, 000 to 350, 000 people who suffer from fatigue due to multiple sclerosis, and perhaps 200, 000 of the 12 million patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that causes a person to stop breathing during the night, but which also causes daytime sleepiness, says Cephalon spokeswoman Sheryl Williams.

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He also says it may be useful for adults with sleep apnea, which causes daytime fatigue and impairs a person's performance.

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Overweight people often have sleep problems -- most notably sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that causes frequent awakenings -- but it's not clear if they're overweight because of their sleep problems, or if their sleep problems result from being overweight.

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