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How sleep apnea can blunt blood-pressure medication

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Downing four different blood pressure pills is entirely useless if you spend half the night unconsciously fighting for your life. Obstructive sleep apnea forces your body into a nightly cycle of brief suffocation and sheer adrenaline-fueled panic, keeping your sympathetic nervous system so chronically hyperactive that standard hypertension medications are essentially bringing a water gun to a chemical fire.

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