Sleep apnea patients can breathe easy about CPAP therapy, computer simulations suggest

[D.H.]

This is good news. This study concluded that increased pressure can not cause damage to various parts of the respiratory tract, as some might have feared.

In fact, some variation of CPAP that is used in premature infants is also safe!


Link ===> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05- ... erapy.html

[lazarus]

Everything is easier when you live inside a computer simulation.

[vandownbytheriver]

But it can raise levels of angiopoetin-2, a sign of damage:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebio ... 1/fulltext

... but statins can reduce this protein level:

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sta ... a-patients

*Not* from simulations... clinical studies. I take rosuvastatin three times a week.

[chunkyfrog]

Thinking/saying CPAP causes harm is like the nutcases who think vaccine is dangerous!
Why is being rational an OPTION?