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<blockquote data-quote="ButtterflyLady" data-source="post: 266328" data-attributes="member: 43498"><p>All good points, I can't disagree with them. Because my own cholesterol/lipid results are still within the normal range, I haven't invested time in learning about lipids and their management. I have enough conditions to learn about that require my attention at the moment.</p><p></p><p>I've always been skeptical of advice to make lipid-targeted dietary changes, having gleaned from somewhere that diet can only make a minimal difference to the levels. The same goes for hypertension and salt intake - I did read widely on that subject when diagnosed years ago and I happily still add salt to my food without any noticeable ill effects. What shocks and disturbs me is knowing that some sleep medicine doctors still advise some patients just to lose weight rather than use CPAP therapy. That's a crime.</p><p></p><p>Sleep apnoea can cause congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and strokes. I'm not particularly aware of its effect on coronary arteries but it probably doesn't help in the mix. As a patient, it is so much easier to use CPAP than to change diet, lose weight, or take drugs. I end up needing to do those things anyway for the conditions that were caused or contributed to by sleep apnoea. Effective CPAP therapy for sleep apnoea promotes weight loss in obese patients, along with reducing hypertension and providing other benefits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ButtterflyLady, post: 266328, member: 43498"] All good points, I can't disagree with them. Because my own cholesterol/lipid results are still within the normal range, I haven't invested time in learning about lipids and their management. I have enough conditions to learn about that require my attention at the moment. I've always been skeptical of advice to make lipid-targeted dietary changes, having gleaned from somewhere that diet can only make a minimal difference to the levels. The same goes for hypertension and salt intake - I did read widely on that subject when diagnosed years ago and I happily still add salt to my food without any noticeable ill effects. What shocks and disturbs me is knowing that some sleep medicine doctors still advise some patients just to lose weight rather than use CPAP therapy. That's a crime. Sleep apnoea can cause congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and strokes. I'm not particularly aware of its effect on coronary arteries but it probably doesn't help in the mix. As a patient, it is so much easier to use CPAP than to change diet, lose weight, or take drugs. I end up needing to do those things anyway for the conditions that were caused or contributed to by sleep apnoea. Effective CPAP therapy for sleep apnoea promotes weight loss in obese patients, along with reducing hypertension and providing other benefits. [/QUOTE]
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