阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征是一种睡眠期的疾病。睡眠时打鼾不仅影响他人休息,打鼾者睡眠时还常常憋醒,他人可发现患者睡眠时有呼吸暂停现象。睡眠呼吸暂停是指睡眠时出现鼻腔和口腔气流暂停时间超过10秒钟的现象。睡眠呼吸暂停综合征指在7小时睡眠中出现呼吸暂停30次以上或平均每小时呼吸暂停5次以上,即睡眠时呼吸暂停指数为5以上者。这种睡眠时的呼吸紊乱可引起高血压、心律紊乱、心肺功能衰竭,甚至有猝死的危险。一、病因口咽部的肌肉,如腭帆张肌、腭帆提肌、舌腭肌、咽腭肌等肌肉的松弛无力,使软腭及舌根后落,造成 Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is a sleep-stage disease. Snoring sleep not only affects other people’s rest, snore sleep often wake up, others can be found in patients with sleep apnea phenomenon. Sleep apnea refers to the phenomenon of nasal and oral airflow pause for more than 10 seconds during sleep. Sleep apnea syndrome refers to more than 30 episodes of apnea during 7 hours of sleep or more than 5 episodes of apnea per hour on average, ie, those with apnea at sleep of 5 or more. This sleeping breathing disorder can cause high blood pressure, heart rhythm disorders, cardiopulmonary failure, and even the risk of sudden death. First, the cause of the oropharyngeal muscles, such as the palatal fan, muscle levator palate, palatine palate, pharyngeal palate and other muscle relaxation weakness, the soft palate and tongue base after the fall, resulting in