Sleep apnea syndrome is a sleep disorder in which multiple pauses in breathing occur during sleep. Generally speaking, 30 pauses of 10 seconds or more and 10 seconds or more during 7 hours of continuous sleep can be considered as having sleep apnea syndrome. What harm can sleep apnea syndrome bring to us? First of all, people with sleep apnea syndrome have a much lower quality of sleep. According to the minimum standard of 30 times in 7 hours, 10 seconds each time, then the total time of apnea is 5 minutes, which means that in these 5 minutes, the body gets almost 0 oxygen from the outside world, but in fact, the actual apnea time of the patient is much longer than this number. This, combined with the fact that sleep apnea is intermittent, causes sleep to become very shallow and fragmented, and the patient cannot enjoy quality sleep, even if he or she sleeps for ten hours, and is not fully rested, so people with this disease feel very shut down and unresponsive during the day. And in this case of intermittent hypoxia, their blood pressure will also become very unstable and their heart will be more burdened, so things like hypertension, myocardial infarction, and myocardial hypoxia are common concomitants of sleep apnea syndrome, and all of them are more dangerous. What is more serious is that if the apnea is too long during sleep, the body will suffocate and die because it does not get oxygen for a long time. So if you suffer from this disease, you have to seek medical attention in a timely manner to find out the cause and then treat the symptoms, as long as the proper treatment is generally controllable, such as those patients with sleep apnea syndrome caused by obesity, many only need to do a weight loss surgery can be treated.