Dr. Paul Hoff

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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta · When Snoring Becomes a Danger to Your Health · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, greater than 50% chance of sleep apnea if your BMI is over 35, yeah.

Yeah, it's pretty interesting.

As you gain weight, your tongue actually gets bigger.

So when you fall asleep at night, you know, you relax.

And especially if you're on your back, it just falls back and blocks the airway.

Yeah, it has.

So you think about sort of the soft tissue filling the back of the throat, that would be fat, but also the skeletal framework.

So the box that everything is contained in.

And so Asian Americans or Asians have just a small, the box is smaller in a front to back dimension.

So that contributes to more crowding of the airway as well.

You also might think about patients like with a recessed jaw.

That's another population of patients who have bad sleep apnea.

It is screened.

I know that primary care doctors, they'll look in your mouth, see if your tongue is big, and they'll ask some basic questions.

But I think, as we mentioned again, that it's definitely underreported and underdiagnosed.

You know, you could say for the most part they do.

One caveat is a lot of women are at significant risk for sleep apnea, just like men, but they often go undiagnosed a lot more than men because men snore really loud.

It's really kind of obvious.

A lot of times women will have, you know, they won't snore so much.

They have more partial obstruction, so they might breathe heavy, but it's not recognized as obstructive sleep apnea.

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