DON’T LET SLEEP APNEA KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT As many as half of older adults are at risk for sleep apnea. This is a sleep disorder in which the throat collapses during sleep, causing a person to repeatedly stop breathing for periods of 10 seconds or longer throughout the night. To provide you with more information on this common ailment, here are excerpts from the May 1, 2023 online article by Julie Corliss, Executive Editor of the Harvard Heart Letter, Should you be tested for sleep apnea? This sleep-disrupting disorder is common but often unrecognized—especially in people with heart...