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People who snore but pass the sleep apnea test are most often just written off as suffering an annoyance.<\/p>\nPeople who snore but pass the sleep apnea test are most often just written off as suffering an annoyance.<\/p>\n
This is however far from true according to a new study published in the Journal of International Medical Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n In fact, snoring alone may even be more life-threatening than sleep apnea.<\/p>\n Researchers had 181 people undergo a polysomnographic sleep assessment for one night, which included an analysis of their levels of sleep apnea and snoring.<\/p>\n They measured their blood pressure when they woke up and again 15 minutes after waking.<\/p>\n Those on blood pressure medication or with a blood pressure score of 140\/90 mmHg and upwards were classified as hypertensive.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, they found that people with sleep apnea were likely to have high blood pressure.<\/p>\n But they discovered that snoring alone was an even stronger predictor of hypertension than sleep apnea was.<\/p>\n In other words, snorers without sleep apnea are even more likely than sleep apnea sufferers to have high blood pressure.<\/p>\n The reason why snoring is a blood pressure risk is the same as for sleep apnea.<\/p>\n As common as snoring is, it is not a normal breathing pattern. It is a warning that there is an obstruction in your air passages that are meant to allow enough oxygen into your body.<\/p>\n It may not involve pauses in breathing, like sleep apnea does, but it still means that too little air is getting into your body.<\/p>\n Fortunately there is a simple way to cure snoring permanently.<\/p>\n