When you are suffering under sleep apnea you are not only snoring but you are also experiencing breathing stops. Besides known and serious possible consequences of sleep apnea like lack of sleep, high blood pressure, increase risk of stroke and infarction, imminent brain damage due to lack of oxygen up to suffocation scientists found a further possible connection to a life threatening disease: cancer.
On the one hand, the study revealed that depending on the severity of apnea the cancer risk is five times as high on the other hand different studies found out that due to the arising lack of oxygen not only development of cancer is favored but also already existing tumors are disadvantageously favored.
Growth of tumor blood vessels due to lack of oxygen
The studies found that due to the lack of oxygen more free radicals (they are playing an important role in development of cancer) were formed. And, that an increased amount of so-called vascular progenitor cells and endothelial cells (they are supporting formation of new blood vessels in tumors) were present. As a consequence, tumors are provided with more nutrients and tumor growth promoted.
Basically, the findings of the studies laid ground for further studies but it is undoubtedly proven that sleep apnea might as well support development of cancer as well might increase already existing cancer.
Remedy for sleep apnea: SAMINA Gravity®
Based on years of research and experiences in the field of healthy sleep SAMINA and in co-operation with space and sleep clinician has developed a simply yet effective support for people suffering under sleep apnea: inclined sleeping. Numerous tests and experiences of customers prove that the change of the inclination angle are improving and sometimes even are stopping snoring as well as sleep apnea. Furthermore, when lying in an inclined position the human organism receives the important yet in a horizontal position missing impulses of gravity.
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Studies:
- Intermittent hypoxia enhances cancer progression in a mouse model of sleep apnoea
- Sleep Apnea: A Common Mechanism for the Deadly Triad—Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer?
- Nieto FJ, Peppard PE, Young T et al.: Sleep disordered breathing and cancer mortality. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012; 186: Seite 190–194
- Almendros I, Montserrat JM, Ramírez J et al.: Intermittent hypoxia enhances cancer progression in a mouse model of sleep apnoea. Eur Respir J 2012; 39: Seite 215–217
- Campos-Rodriguez F, Martinez-Garcia MA, Martinez M et al.: Spanish Sleep Network. Association between obstructive sleep apnea and cancer incidence in a large multicenter Spanish cohort. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013; 187: Seite 99–105
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