Snoring treatment slashes heart-attack rise
AFP, September, 2006
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MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Treatment for people who suffer from a chronic form of snoring can dramatically cut their risk of serious heart problems, a medical conference has heard. Individuals with a condition called obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome stop breathing for at least 10 seconds, five times an hour or more.
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In addition to causing snoring when the breathing suddenly resumes, the person also suffers chronic fatigue from poor sleep and, previous research has shown shown, stress on the cardiovascular system. In a study for presentation at the European Respiratory Society's annual congress, a team from Germany's University of Bochum monitored 638 apnoea sufferers over an average seven-year period. Of these, 499 were under treatment and 139 ...
