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Mouth-taping to treat sleep apnoea – here are the risks

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par Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University

An unhealthy diet and an indolent life are well known causes of heart disease and stroke. But sleep apnoea – where people temporarily stop breathing while asleep because their airway collapses – is also a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

While the solutions for an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise are clear, the solutions for sleep apnoea are less clear. There are expensive and hard-to-cope-with Cpap (continuous positive airway pressure) machines that help you to breathe while you sleep. And there…

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