Man with same sleep disorder as Joe Biden causes four traffic accidents in months: Wake up call!

A 55-year-old man with the same sleep disorder as Joe Biden crashed his motorcycle four times in nine months.

The construction worker, whose case was revealed in a US medical journal, kept falling asleep while driving due to his excessive daytime sleepiness.

It was so bad that on the day of his admission the man closed his eyes and collapsed, bruising his right eye after hitting the edge of a table.

Doctors diagnosed him with obstructive sleep apnea – for which the president, 81, has also been treated – and prescribed him a ventilator to open his airways at night.

Streets in Vietnam are notoriously chaotic, like this roundabout pictured above in the country. Experts say excessive sleepiness increases the risk of accidents

The patient, who came from Vietnam, complained that he snored constantly at night and often woke up suddenly gasping for breath.

The 55-year-old said mornings were also interrupted by headaches and feelings of drowsiness – and that they had gained 22 pounds in two years.

The matter came to light in the American Journal of Case Reportsamid warnings from doctors that excessive sleepiness can increase the risk of road accidents.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by the upper airway becoming blocked during sleep and affects approximately 39 million people in the US each year.

In many cases it is linked to obesity, which can cause fatty deposits to build up in the airways, making them heavier and more likely to collapse when you lie down.

But it can also be caused by aging, where the muscles in the airways become weaker over time, making them more likely to collapse when a person sleeps.

This puts people at a much greater risk of dementia, which is probably related to prolonged interrupted sleep.

The patient in Vietnam was a 55-year-old construction worker who suffered from the same sleep disorder as Joe Biden

Doctors have also measured patients’ necks to diagnose the condition, which is caused by the airways becoming blocked while a person sleeps, making it difficult for them to breathe.

President Biden has been suffering from symptoms consistent with OSA since at least June last year.

The White House announced the condition after the president came out with spots on his face consistent with using a CPAP machine.

He also had symptoms of OSA in 2008 and 2019, said Physician-in-the-President Dr. Kevin O’Connor, but it was reportedly resolved after sinus and nasal cavity surgeries.

Dr. O’Connor said Biden remains a “healthy, active, robust” man who remains “fit to successfully discharge the duties of the President.”

In the Vietnam case, the patient was also diagnosed with obesity hypoventilation disorder (OHD) – a breathing disorder that causes an obese person to have too much carbon dioxide and not enough oxygen in their blood.

Doctors treated the patient by asking him to use a CPAP machine for six hours every night.

After three months, the patient reported that he had slept better and was now alert enough to drive.

They also say they lost almost 5 pounds and their blood pressure – which was previously high – dropped to normal levels.

Their accidents were related to daytime sleepiness, with the patient confirming that they had not consumed alcohol before the accidents.

Doctors revealed the case in part to warn about the dangers of driving while tired, with about 328,000 accidents on U.S. roads linked to drowsiness each year.

Doctors at a military hospital in Ho Chi Minh City wrote in the report: ‘In summary, OSA… manifests symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, which significantly increases the risk of traffic accidents.

“Unfortunately, this issue has not received the necessary attention in Vietnam.”

The CDC says everyone should sleep an average of seven to nine hours per night.

But surveys show that more than a third of Americans don’t meet this threshold, amid bright lights in city centers and a growing abundance of distractions — from televisions to cell phones and computer games.