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• Type 2 diabetics who suffer from sleep apnea may be able to significantly lower their glucose levels if they treat their breathing disorder, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have found.
• In the small study, 25 type 2 diabetics who had been diagnosed with sleep apnea underwent standard treatment for the condition.
• Obesity is a known risk factor for diabetes as well as sleep apnea, and diabetics are nine times more likely to have sleep apnea than people without the disease, Herdegen said.
• The participants underwent the standard treatment for the sleep apnea, called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which includes going to bed wearing a mask over the nose or nostrils that is attached to a machine that blows air through the upper respiratory tract, keeping the back of the throat from closing.
• Further, their average glucose levels an hour after eating, a key measurement when monitoring diabetes, dropped from 190 mg/dl to 135 mg/dl.
• The strong results from this study indicate the need for a larger study to measure these effects, Herdegen said, but also suggest that screening for sleep apnea should be a regular part of treatment for type 2 diabetics.

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