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“You cannot expect a brain to perform at its best when sleep is being interrupted hundreds of times a night,” Dr. Muhammad Usama, a sleep medicine physician, told The Epoch Times.
For children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), sleep-disordered breathing is often an overlooked explanation. Yet it is rarely checked during diagnosis.
Not Just a Breathing Problem
Sleep-disordered breathing is abnormal breathing during sleep, ranging from habitual snoring to sleep apnea, in which the airway repeatedly narrows or collapses.
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