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Snoring is often thought of as innocent annoyance (and maybe a little funny for some). Okay, it irritates the spouse and creates tension in the relationship but that\u2019s where it ends, right?<\/p>\nSnoring is often thought of as innocent annoyance (and maybe a little funny for some). Okay, it irritates the spouse and creates tension in the relationship but that\u2019s where it ends, right?<\/p>\n
Dead wrong!<\/p>\n
A new study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension<\/em> revealed that snoring leads directly to high blood pressure. In addition, the worse your snore, the more severe the connection.<\/p>\n And this holds true in the absence of the sister condition: Sleep Apnea.<\/p>\n Japanese scientists identified 2,021 middle-aged Japanese people who participated in the Toon Health Study between 2009 and 2012, most of them being of normal or lean body weight.<\/p>\n Their blood pressure scores were already available.<\/p>\n Subjects were then asked to report their snoring frequency and were divided into groups based on their snoring frequency categorizations:<\/p>\n – never Compared to never-snorers, those in the heaviest snoring group had 4.57 mmHg higher systolic and 2.58 mmHg higher diastolic blood pressure scores.<\/p>\n Those who snored three or more times per week also had a 79 percent greater chance of having high blood pressure when compared to never-snorers.<\/p>\n These findings were true for overweight, normal-weight, and lean people.<\/p>\n And it also means that you can most definitely drop your blood pressure by a few points if you are an every-night snorer and decide to do something about it.<\/p>\n
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