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Before he got treatment, Robert Taylor would stop breathing while asleep and his wife Marie, right, would have to nudge him until he’d start again.

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the Sleep Center at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham performs more than 2,000 sleep studies and provides sleep apnea treatment to some 600 patients each year. The center conducted two tests on Taylor during his overnight stay. During the first part of the evening, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., brain and muscle activity were recorded by electrodes attached to Taylor’s head and face and his heart rate and breathing were monitored. “The test

showed that I stopped breathing 100 times an hour,� Taylor said. With obstructive sleep apnea, “the throat relaxes more than usual and, at a critical point, closes and the person begins to suffocate. That lowers oxygen levels in the body and increases the heart rate. The brain is forced to respond. It arouses the person, though not to the point of consciousness, to get the throat open so that breathing resumes,� said Dakheel. “Unfortunately, as soon as the patient begins to relax, the cycle starts again.� During the second part of the polysomnogram, Taylor wore a mask attached to a CPAP machine. Short for continuous positive airway pressure, CPAP is a therapy that increases air pressure in the throat and keeps the airway open. “Nothing in medicine is treated as simply and effectively as sleep apnea,� said Dakheel. The CPAP machine worked wonders. “I started to get my energy back within a week or two because I continued on 18

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