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Sleep Apnea
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Sleep apnea is a disorder in which breathing stops repeatedly during sleep, producing brief arousals the sleeper does not recall.
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A patient reports sleeping nine hours and feeling exhausted, and a recording shows dozens of interruptions hourly.
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The complaint is daytime exhaustion, not disturbed sleep. Patients usually do not know their sleep is broken.