Study provides more evidence that sleep apnea is hurting your brain Researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing have found that people suffering from sleep apnea have weaker brain blood flow “We know there is injury to the brain from sleep apnea, and we also know that the heart has problems pumping blood to the body, and potentially also to the brain,” said Paul Macey, associate dean for Information Technology and Innovations at the UCLA School of Nursing and lead researcher for the study. “By using this method, we were able to show changes in the amount of oxygenated blood across the whole brain, which could be one cause of the damage we see in people with sleep apnea.”
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:19:44 +0000