My husband has diabetes and Sleep Apnea. Can you tell me if you have diabetes can this cause you to have Sleep Apnea?
Does Anyone Know If There Is A Correlation Between Sleep Apnea And Diabetes?
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Is he overweight? Both diabetes and sleep apnea are correlated with obesity. This COULD be the connection. I am unaware of any direct connection between diabetes and apnea.
I am a 57 year old man who also has sleep apnea. Yes there is a good correlation between being obese and having sleep
apnea but not all who suffer with this are obese. I know several women who are skinny and have this. According to my
doc sleep apnea makes trying to lose weigh a lot harder. I know that after starting treatment 5 months ago I have lost 14 lbs without dieting or more exercise. The Mendoza web page has a nice article on this.
The most common cause of sleep apnea and diabetes is being overweight. You can’t get diabetes from sleep apnea or vice versa. Sleep apnea can cause alot of health problems as can diabetes. My advice is find a good doctor and get cleared for a weight loss/exercise plan. If the weight is lost and a more healthy lifestyle is adapted both the diabetes and sleep apnea may go away. Good luck to you both.
I have both conditions but I don’t think the two are related. One common factor is being overweight. Other than that the two conditions have nothing to do with each other.
People who are obese are usually the ones with diabetes and people who are fat are the ones with sleep apnea.
The correlation is fat=diabetes
fat=sleep apnea
There is one between Apnea and obesity…
when i cant sleep i warm up 3 frozen burritos and watch TV
There is a definite correlation between Type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea. Research in 2008 by the International Diabetes Federation showed that 58% of Type 2 diabetics have sleep disordered breathing … and 40% of people with sleep apnea have Type 2 diabetes.
The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, a study conducted over an 18 year period, also found that if people with Type 2 diabetes regularly use a common sleep apnea treatment, CPAP, for at least four hours per night, they can reduce their hemoglobin A1c levels significantly. And for every 1% reduction in HBA1c, there is a 14-20% decrease in hospitalizations.