Anxiety in Your Brain: What Happens When Anxiety Attacks? Anxiety does evoke the same fight or flight response that stress does, which means, like stress, anxiety will trigger a flood of stress hormones like cortisol designed to enhance your speed, reflexes, heart rate, and circulation.
Mouthpiece, CPAP Prove Best for Sleep Apnea. MedpageToday. WASHINGTON -- Wearing a mouthpiece and using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine are the most effective treatments for obstructive sleep apnea, according to a comparative effectiveness review from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The first step sleep apnea patients and CPAP users can take toward preventing pneumonia this year is also the easiest: Clean your CPAP equipment daily! For some CPAP users, this is easier said than done, as cleaning CPAP equipment by hand can be a tedious, time-consuming process.