10-08-2023, 09:23 PM
What's the latest on the connection between PTSD and OSA/UARS?
Question is in the title.
I don't have a formal diagnosis, but I've had quite a bit of trauma in my life and so I've been interested in the connection between PTSD and OSA and UARS. I read in the books by Dr Barry Krakow that he found in his practice that patients with a lot of anxiety and trauma were the ones who struggled the most to use CPAP. He, and others, have worked to find a link between PTSD and UARS, and from what I've gathered, clinicians have observed a link but they don't know if PTSD causes OSA/UARS, or if people predisposed to OSA/UARS are also predisposed to develop PTSD, or if the link could be bidirectional.
Furthermore, we don't know of a particular causal mechanism. The only theory I know of is that people with PTSD may spend more time in NREM 2 sleep and SDB events happen more in NREM 2 than NREM 3.
Is there anything new in the last decade or so?
What's the latest on PTSD and OSA/UARS?
I don't have a formal diagnosis, but I've had quite a bit of trauma in my life and so I've been interested in the connection between PTSD and OSA and UARS. I read in the books by Dr Barry Krakow that he found in his practice that patients with a lot of anxiety and trauma were the ones who struggled the most to use CPAP. He, and others, have worked to find a link between PTSD and UARS, and from what I've gathered, clinicians have observed a link but they don't know if PTSD causes OSA/UARS, or if people predisposed to OSA/UARS are also predisposed to develop PTSD, or if the link could be bidirectional.
Furthermore, we don't know of a particular causal mechanism. The only theory I know of is that people with PTSD may spend more time in NREM 2 sleep and SDB events happen more in NREM 2 than NREM 3.
Is there anything new in the last decade or so?
What's the latest on PTSD and OSA/UARS?
