What are the signs and dangers of sleep apnea?

Sometimes you will hear that some people around you will have the phenomenon of night sleep snoring, accompanied by apnea, and daytime sleepiness, and think that this is just a small matter of not sleeping well and snoring, and even some people think that snoring is the performance of a good sleep. In fact, these phenomena are a kind of sleep respiratory disease of unknown etiology, which is common and seriously jeopardizes human health. This disease has different degrees of apnea and hypoventilation during sleep, and the direct pathogenesis is the narrowing and obstruction of the upper airway (but its onset is not a simple airway obstruction, but actually a collapse of the upper airway, accompanied by respiratory central neuromodulatory factor disorders), which is medically known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypoventilation Syndrome (OSAHS). Sleep apnea syndrome has a great impact on the body. Clinical manifestations are: 1. Snoring (soft palate vibration). This kind of snoring is different from simple snoring in that it is loud and very loud; the snoring is irregular and intermittent; 2, daytime weakness or drowsiness; 3, apnea occurs in sleep, sometimes it will be suddenly suffocated to wake up, or even suddenly sit up, sweating profusely, with a sense of near death; 4, nocturnal enuresis is increased, and enuresis occurs in individual patients; 5, headache in the morning; 6, loss of intellect and memory, as well as changes in personality, including temper tantrums and depression, and so on; 7, sexual dysfunction, especially male erectile dysfunction; 8, the consequences of the most attention is now the relationship with chronic diseases, OSA can cause hypertension, and close relationship with coronary heart disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, sudden death and so on. So snoring is often superficial, behind which hidden sleep apnea may lead to systemic problems, seriously affecting the quality of life, physical health and ability to work, it is very necessary to actively treat.