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Anatomy may help identify sleep apnea

In this article, a discovery made by a team at the Seoul National University College of Medicine in South Korea regarding sleep apnea is discussed. The team used sleep video fluoroscopy to find the cause behind sleep apnea,and found that those people with the problem had soft palates at the top of their mouths. Additionally, they found that those patients who merely snored and did not have sleep apnea did not have these soft palates on the tops of their mouths.

Read the full article here: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=97908