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On October 12, Olympic gymnastics champion Yang Wei revealed that he had respiratory problems, could not breathe in for a while, and needed to wear a ventilator for life while sleeping. Subsequently, the topic #Yang Wei revealed that he wanted to wear a ventilator for life# rushed to the top of the hot search.
Yang Wei said that he did not expect that as a national athlete, he would wear a ventilator at the age of 40.
Sleep without breathing in for up to 6 minutes
Yang Wei said he had recently started snoring, and doctors said that he had a problem with his respiratory tract, could not breathe, and needed to wear a ventilator for life when he slept.
Yang Wei said that during his sleep, he could not breathe in for up to 6 minutes, which was very dangerous, and if he held his breath for a longer time, his life might be in danger.
As a member of the Chinese gymnastics team, Yang Wei won the first Olympic men's team championship for the Chinese gymnastics team at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
In 2006 and 2007, Yang Wei won the all-around championship of the World Championships twice, and on August 12, 2008, in the men's team final of gymnastics at the Beijing Olympic Games, Yang Wei led the Chinese gymnastics men's team to regain the gold medal in the men's team after eight years.
In May 2009, Yang Wei officially retired.
Previously, actress Chen Qiaoen also appeared on the hot search for sleeping and snoring. Chen Qiaoen said that he suffered from severe sleep apnea, and if he was in deep sleep, he would stop breathing 25 times an hour, each time for more than 50 seconds, so he had to undergo surgery.
In June, 43-year-old Huo Qigang was diagnosed with severe insomnia disorder and moderate sleep apnea (sleep apnea syndrome). He said in an interview that although he slept early, he would be woken up by his own snoring at about four o'clock in the morning every day, and then he could not fall asleep or woke up frequently, even if he slept for 7 hours, he still felt very tired.
The rate of sudden death in patients is 3 times higher than that of normal people
According to public information, sleep apnea, also known as sleep apnea syndrome, includes three types: obstructive, central and mixed, of which "obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome" is the most common. The main manifestations of this type of symptoms are sleep snoring, apnea, daytime sleepiness, patients not only sleep quality decline, often accompanied by nocturia, morning headache, inattention, fatigue, memory loss, mood swings, depression, anxiety and other conditions. In the long term, it is easy to cause organ damage and induce various complications such as hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Tian Chao, a respiratory and critical care doctor at Beijing Shijitan Hospital, told reporters that sleep apnea syndrome is caused by a variety of causes, repeated narrowing and obstruction of the upper respiratory tract during sleep leads to apnea, alveolar ventilation is insufficient, resulting in complications such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes and cerebrovascular diseases, and even sudden death at night.
"One in five people who snore has obstructive sleep apnea." Professor Han Fang, Secretary-General of the World Sleep Society and Peking University People's Hospital, introduced that as a chronic progressive disease, the sudden death rate of people suffering from sleep apnea is 3 times higher than that of people without the disease, and early detection and early diagnosis and treatment are crucial.
Tian Chao said that people with symptoms such as nocturnal sleep snoring, loud snoring, irregular snoring, daytime sleepiness, and morning headaches should pay attention.
Professor Li Taoping, director of the Sleep Medicine Center of Southern Hospital of Southern Medical University, previously introduced that only the cases he came into contact with due to severe sleep apnea leading to death every year, and quite a few, there was a woman in her 40s, because the hospital did not have a sleep monitoring bed, had to stay in a hotel for one night, and died of severe sleep apnea.
How is sleep apnea treated ? Nie Shaoping, director of the Emergency Critical Care Center of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, introduced that patients can be treated through surgery, intraoral appliances and positive airway pressure, and can also wear ventilators at night.
In patients with mild sleep apnea, symptoms can be prevented and reduced through lifestyle changes, such as weight loss, avoiding alcohol and sedative sleeping drugs, smoking cessation, and sleeping in the lateral position.
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Editor of this issue Zou Shan