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CPAP in the presense of CHF: how to measure "improvements" that count
I now realize that many people are helped dramatically by the use of the CPAP in sleep apnea.
However, if one has several co-morbid states--especially the elderly where sleep apnea and CHF appear to be growing dramatically side-by side, how can one tell if improvements iin health are permanent or temporary. I, personally, have been misled by subjective self-observations about "felling so much better" when a new drug regime for CHF is tried that I hesitate exclaiming anything.
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If something helps w/better sleep or better cardiac function, whether due to placebo effect, or actual physical effect ..... so what? As long as it helps, or there is the perception that it helps, it increases the quality of life.
That's not to say that you don't keep looking for something that could help more but why turn down even temporary help until permanent help is found?
Which is more important? Quality of life? Or quantity of life? Personally I opt for the former.
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