Snoring and Sleep Apnea: Sleep Well, Feel Better

by Ralph A. Pascualy, Sally Warren Soest

Snoring is no joke! Snoring is the most common sign of sleep apnea, a potentially fatal sleep disorder that affects approximately 20 million Americans. It is associated with heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, and premature death, and is a common cause of driving accidents, yet it frequently goes undiagnosed. Snoring and Sleep Apnea is for people who have — or suspect that they have — sleep apnea. It is also written for their bed partners, families, and friends, and for health care professionals involved in sleep apnea management. The book provides answers to key questions, written in easy-to-understand terms, as well as the pros and cons of specific treatments. This extensively revised and updated third edition includes information on new surgical techniques, the treatment of children with snoring and sleep apnea problems, and new oral appliances for relief of snoring and sleep apnea.

286 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2000

Reviews

[Suzanne Fournier · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was recently diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and have been looking for more information about it, this was about the only book my library had on the subject.

This book is awful, most of the chapters repeat again and again, the same terrible statistics of how people with sleep apnea are at much higher risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and hypertension. It is blatant fear mongering and something I've found prevalent in the sleep industry.

There is only one chapter devoted to women, the rest of the book assuming male sleep issues and sexism when it comes to sleep is obvious when the book states that 'women's sleep has only been studied since the 1990's'.

The book does give some helpful information about the testing process and surgery options.

[Katharine Holden · Rating 1 out of 5]

286 pages can be summed up as "CPAP is the only way." There, now you can read something else.

As the chapters go by, one starts to wonder what the author's financial relationship list would look like. I was hoping for an in depth look, not a commercial.

[Edmond · Rating 3 out of 5]

Might as well the author had just said we should see a sleep specialist and be done with it. There is no information on how to self diagnose, no techniques on how to cope for the mild cases. Easy read and learning of the terms.

[Martha]

good info but overly repetitive so could be reduced by half

[Tiffany]

I think that this book really teaches you about sleep apnea. It is a good book to turn to if you need to know the syntoms of sleep apnea. In this book you can also tell what kind of sleep apnea you have. It is a good medical book.