Sleep Apnea, a risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (CSA)
Sudden cardiac arrest kills more than 300,000 Americans each year and often strikes without warning. Recent evidence suggests that there is a link between sudden cardiac arrest and sleep apnea, a common sleep disorder that causes a person's breathing to pause or become shallow. This sleep disorder increases a person's chances of developing heart disease and places them at a higher risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Researchers found people with sleep apnea were 2.6 times more li