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Dennis A. Dean, II

Treating people with chronic diseases accounts for 86% of our nation’s health care costs

Chronic Illness

Community Involvement can Improve Adherence

Decreases health care cost

Treatment Adherence

$ 908Billion/year

Heart DiseaseDiabetes

Lung DiseaseAlzheimer's

Treatment can be uncomfortable

Adherence Challenge

Treatment Plan for Sleep Apnea

Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP)

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Margaret

31 July 2015, 8:04 PM

MicheleI got the bi-level machine and my quality of life sucks,taking provigil to get at least some time awake,I do have to take pain medication I know it doesn't help my sleep apnea. Before you tell me that's my problem it's not. This has been a long road for me, I am pretty broken up from various other medical issues. I am hoping there has been some advancements in treating this miserable curse, I would rather go more chemotherapy, than have CSA it is ruining my life. I tried every mask made and it made no difference,I am a mouth breather so my teeth are rotting away at a rate that I can not even keep up with, I am going to try another round of sleep studies in the hope there are better options than taking drugs to try and get 4-5 hours of somewhat alert time, before I have to take a nap. Also, is there a mask a mouth breather like me can wear?

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Margaret

31 July 2015, 8:04 PM

MicheleI got the bi-level machine and my quality of life sucks,taking provigil to get at least some time awake,I do have to take pain medication I know it doesn't help my sleep apnea. Before you tell me that's my problem it's not. This has been a long road for me, I am pretty broken up from various other medical issues. I am hoping there has been some advancements in treating this miserable curse, I would rather go more chemotherapy, than have CSA it is ruining my life. I tried every mask made and it made no difference,I am a mouth breather so my teeth are rotting away at a rate that I can not even keep up with, I am going to try another round of sleep studies in the hope there are better options than taking drugs to try and get 4-5 hours of somewhat alert time, before I have to take a nap. Also, is there a mask a mouth breather like me can wear?

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Margaret

31 July 2015, 8:04 PM

MicheleI got the bi-level machine and my quality of life sucks,taking provigil to get at least some time awake,I do have to take pain medication I know it doesn't help my sleep apnea. Before you tell me that's my problem it's not. This has been a long road for me, I am pretty broken up from various other medical issues. I am hoping there has been some advancements in treating this miserable curse, I would rather go more chemotherapy, than have CSA it is ruining my life. I tried every mask made and it made no difference,I am a mouth breather so my teeth are rotting away at a rate that I can not even keep up with, I am going to try another round of sleep studies in the hope there are better options than taking drugs to try and get 4-5 hours of somewhat alert time, before I have to take a nap. Also, is there a mask a mouth breather like me can wear?

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PhD, Biomedical Engineering and BiotechnologyUniversity of Massachusetts

Research FellowBrigham and Women's HospitalHarvard Medical SchoolSleep Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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A Optimize Human PerformanceNASA MAR's Day ScheduleRegular LanguageDynamical Systems2 weeks to 30 second

B Pulsatile Times Series to TextContext Free language10+ Hours to 30 second

C Large-scale EEG Spectral and Coherence AnalysisContext Free language2-3 hours to 2-3 seconds

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