Housecall for Health: Women Face Sleep Apnea Risk

If you’re a woman and have trouble getting a good night’s sleep, you’re likely not alone.  An international study has found that women are at an increased risk for a sleeping condition that could lead to even bigger problems.

FOX’s Colleen Cappon reports in today’s “Housecall for Health”:

New research finds half of women may suffer from sleep apnea.  A major study from Umea University in Sweden conducted overnight sleep tests on a random sample of 400 women.  Two-hundred of them experience at least five episodes an hour when they stopped breathing for longer than 10 seconds.

Sleep apnea is linked to stroke, heart attacks and early death.

Housecall for Health, I’m Colleen Cappon, FOX News Radio.