Home Sleep Study
Find out if you have sleep
apnea without leaving
your home.
Some tests monitor your condition and some screen for new ailments. For example, you can monitor diabetes and thyroid conditions, and test for sexually transmitted diseases. Pharmacies now carry tests for cholesterol, colon cancer, drug and alcohol abuse, blood glucose, hepatitis C and HIV. If a test is negative or shows no changes, a costly and time-consuming trip to the doctor can be avoided. If it is positive, there is good reason to make the trip. For both insured and uninsured people, this knowledge can result in significant cost savings. And home testing allows you to get information without the need to wait for an appointment.
The latest advance in home testing is for sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a common yet serious sleep disorder that affects more than 18 million Americans. Sleep apnea is a condition in which there is a lack of sufficient airflow in the airway during sleep for greater than 10 and up to 120 seconds, due to a partially or fully collapsed airway. This can sometimes lead to significant drops in oxygen levels. Sleep apnea is considered to be massively under-diagnosed, in part due to the cost and inconvenience of having to go to a sleep lab for testing and diagnosis. Now, you can test for sleep apnea in your home.
Dr. Avi, Director of Aviisha Medical Wellness Institute says, "We conduct sleep tests for sleep apnea both in our sleep labs where we do overnight testing in a comfortable, hotel-like setting but we also offer patients the option to undergo the sleep test in the comfort of their own bed at home. This can save the patient a great deal of money and the results are found to be just as accurate as they are when we do the sleep lab testing. Today, we may be the only medical facility allowing patients across the US to order a sleep test on the Internet. We are succeeding in eliminating the inconvenience and high cost of getting tested for sleep apnea."
The Aviisha home sleeping test is available at http://www.aviisha.com/sleep-well/home-sleep-test. The package even includes an interview with a sleep physician at no extra cost. Home tests like the Aviisha home sleeping test and the other tests described above put some of the power back in your hands, instead of putting you at the mercy of a doctor's appointment book or your HMO. The tests can save money and time, and offer more peace of mind.
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