Losing weight helps improve Sleep Apnea… here’s why

I always discuss with my patients the importance of weight loss in their overall health and specifically their #sleep . Here’s data out of Dr. Richard Schwab’s group in UPenn explaining how weight loss leads to drop in the fat content of the tongue, and how this in turn relates to improvement in the index and severity of #sleepapnea . Every pound counts and even more the reason to loose #weight

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