###Human: Are my chronic granulomatous disease and sleep apnea connected to each other? ###Assistant: Hello. Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an immunodeficiency condition where the white blood cells cannot fight the pathogens effectively which cause different types of infections. As for sleep apnea, it is caused by narrowing of the air passages mostly in the nasopharynx area which cause interrupted night sleep, usually the cause is obesity in short-necked persons or hypertrophied uvula. There is no relation between both except in very rare conditions (Kimura's disease) where CGD causes hypertrophy of the larynx. Please provide me with some photos of your neck and inside your mouth to see if there is hypertrophied uvula. Sleep apnea is usually associated with hypertension and severe headaches. Do you have any of them? Revert with more information to an internal medicine physician online -->