by Christian Goodman | Jan 11, 2019
We usually think of snoring as a harmless annoyance. Yes, it’s loud and it may keep your partner (and you) up at night. But doctors often consider its sister, disease sleep apnea, to be much more dangerous. But a new study just presented a study at a meeting of the...
by Christian Goodman | Dec 30, 2018
A new study published in the journal Pulse reveals the single biggest cause of snoring and sleep apnea. Not only does this factor press on your throat and strangle you while you sleep, it also changes the shape of your breathing passages, causing those dreaded night...
by Christian Goodman | Sep 18, 2018
Past studies to have found direct connection between gastroesophageal reflux disease (acid reflux), or GERD, and sleep apnea. But which disease is the cause of the other (chicken and the egg) or are they actually both caused by some mysterious third element? That’s...
by Christian Goodman | Sep 4, 2018
People with sleep apnea are often overweight or obese. It is, in fact, often due to the fat buildup around our necks, backs, and chests that press on the airways, making them collapse during the night while you sleep. Scientists from the James Madison University...
by Christian Goodman | Aug 22, 2018
You probably know many of the complications and irritations snoring and sleep apnea can cause. But nightmares, sleep walking and even violence, have not been associated with snoring and sleep apnea before. Norwegian scientists decided to put these things to the test...
by Christian Goodman | Aug 9, 2018
As irritating as snoring is, most of us wouldn’t think it had any serious consequences, and if it did, we would not connect it to the cause behind destroying part of your skin. But a new study from Loyola University and a publication in the Journal The Ocular Surface...