Is there any documentation or literature on the effects of sleep apnea particuarly to inability to lose weight?

Vicki has better resources than I, however I will post this for now.

In 2004 a Stanford University and University of Wisconsin study found that sleep-deprived people had higher levels of a hormone that triggers appetite and lower levels of a hormone that suppresses it.


Here is another study by Division of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.  This concludes higher leptin levels in OSA, independent of body fat content, suggest that OSA is associated with resistance to the weight-reducing effects of leptin.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10899061

This is a Polish one which concludes results confirm correlation between leptin and sympathetic activity and their influences on obesity and degree of OSA grade in studied group.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16454443?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed

This is one stating OSA may be associated with changes in leptin, ghrelin, and orexin levels; increased appetite and caloric intake; and again exacerbating obesity. Thus, it appears that obesity and OSA form a vicious cycle where each results in worsening of the other.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18227501?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=4&log$=relatedreviews&logdbfrom=pubmed


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but according to my nutritionist i only take in about 1020calories a day

Updated August 30, 2009.

Vicki


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Friedrich must of had apnea.