09-29-2004, 03:30 PM
yuku Wrote:The unkindest cut : More patients and doctors avoid unnecessary surgery
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/nw/nw003530.php3">http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthc ... 03530.php3</a><!-- m -->
"For example, common throat surgeries used to "cure" snoring and sleep apnea are effective in less than 10 percent of all cases, according to researchers at the Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute in Dublin, Ohio."
Here are more details about this Ohio study,
____________
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sleepohio.com/press3.asp">http://www.sleepohio.com/press3.asp</a><!-- m -->
Common Surgeries to Cure Snoring and Sleep Apnea Are Less Effective, Study Shows
DUBLIN, OH???Common throat surgeries that are widely used to "cure" snoring and sleep apnea problems are only truly successful in less than 10 percent of all cases, according to new research conducted by Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute.
____________
This is a very recent study.
Shlama,
Yuri.
Yuri Kuchinsky | Toronto | <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/bbl/bbl.htm">http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/bbl/bbl.htm</a><!-- m -->