Ill Health Exacerbated by Snoring
Aug 24, 2009 | Posted by bryan | 0 Comments
New research has revealed that noisy sleepers not only annoy others by keeping them awake but are potentially putting their own health at risk.
A study by researchers at a number of US universities, which was published in the PLoS Medicine journal, showed that sleep-disordered breathing is associated with “all-cause mortality, specifically coronary artery disease”.
Men aged between 40 and 70 were the demographic most at risk, the survey revealed.
Commenting on the results, Marianne J Davey, director of the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association, said that snoring puts strain on the heart, blood pressure and breathing systems.
“If this goes on every night for very many years, then of course other things are going to start going wrong,” she explained.
Ms Davey added that hypertension and type two diabetes are two of the conditions made worse by noisy sleeping.
Previous research from the University of Warwick, published in the American journal Sleep, showed that women who sleep for less than the recommended eight hours a night are at higher risk of heart disease than men who follow the same behavioural patterns.