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by David Freeman – HealthDay Reporter | HealthDay

Many doctors unaware the sleep disorder boosts urine production, experts say

“When you ask people about symptoms like snoring and gasping, they tend to say, ‘No, I don’t have them’,” said study author Edward Romero, research coordinator at the Sleep & Human Health Institute in Albuquerque, N.M. “But it’s very easy for them to realize that they wake up at night to go to the bathroom.”

SUNDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — People who wake up during the night to urinate shouldn’t automatically blame a urological problem. Sleep apnea, a breathing-related sleep disorder, could be the cause.

A new study suggests that nighttime urination, or nocturia, is comparable to loud snoring as a marker for obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which soft tissue in the throat blocks the flow of air into the lungs, disrupting sleep.

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My research team will be in Baltimore for the annual APSS, presenting 5 works from the past year, including:

1. Oral presentation by me on the topic of “Sleep Disordered Breathing in Patients Dependent on Prescription Sleep Medications.”
2. Oral presentation by Eddie Romero on the topic of “Nocturia as a Screening Tool for Sleep-Disordered Breathing.”
3. Poster by Linda Trujillo on the topic of “Self-Guided Imagery for Insomnia Patients undergoing Polysomnography Testing.”
4. Poster by Natalia McIver on the topic of “Self-Guided Imagery for SDB Patients undergoing a Polysomnography Titration.”
5. Poster by Eddie Romero on the topic of “Nocturia as a Screening Tool in Insomnia Patients with Potential Risk for Sleep-Disordered Breathing.”

On this prostate quiz at www.healthcentral.com, question #7 asks about visits to the bathroom at night (nocturia). The assumption that pervades the medical community and the mainstream media is that this finding must signal prostate problems. Rarely do we find a story describing how nocturia was eliminated when the patient was evaluated and treated for sleep-disordered breathing. Yet, if you examine the science behind this incredibly common symptom, you’ll learn that sleep breathing causes an unnatural increase of blood flow to the right atrium of the heart, which then responds to relieve this “false fluid overload state” by secreting ANP, a natural diuretic in the body that signals the kidneys to make more urine. Even though nocturia is much more likely to be caused by sleep breathing problems, we still get outdated quizzes published on the web that continue to mislead patients to imagine that prostatism is the only explanation for visiting the bathroom at night. Those who use Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) therapy to treat sleep apnea have a much different and successful story to tell, and you can guess the happy ending: fewer or no trips to the bathroom, once sleep breathing problems are corrected.