Lead study author Robert Deeb, M. Patients need to seek treatment in the same way they would if they had sleep apnea, high blood pressure or other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Snoring can also lead to high blood pressure and heart conditions such as stroke. Several factors can cause you to snore. Each of these factors carry their own risk. Here are a few of the common ones and what you can do about them! FaceBook Twitter LinkedIn. Obesity can cause snoring.
Generally speaking, this is due to the presence of neck fat. When you lie down, it compresses the upper airway, which makes snoring much more likely. When you sleep, it can push your diaphragm up—as a result, the fat will compress the ribcage. As you can imagine, that would put pressure on your lungs, which would restrict airflow. To make matters worse, people who snore tend to sleep poorly, making it more likely they will gain additional weight.
Weight loss can not only potentially decrease your risk of snoring, it can drastically increase your overall health as well. Alcohol is a depressant. This means it will slow down the function of your central nervous system. As a result, it relaxes many of your muscles—including the ones that are involved with breathing.
Assuming that you drink before bed, its sedative effects can relax your jaw muscles—to the point where they can collapse onto your airway and can lead to snoring. In other words, it can dry out your throat, which would make your snoring even louder.
Certain nasal problems can contribute to snoring. OSA often is characterized by loud snoring followed by periods of silence when breathing stops or nearly stops. Eventually, this reduction or pause in breathing may signal you to wake up, and you may awaken with a loud snort or gasping sound.
You may sleep lightly due to disrupted sleep. This pattern of breathing pauses may be repeated many times during the night. People with obstructive sleep apnea usually experience periods when breathing slows or stops at least five times during every hour of sleep. See your doctor if you have any of the above symptoms.
These may indicate your snoring is associated with obstructive sleep apnea OSA. If your child snores, ask your pediatrician about it. Children can have OSA, too. Nose and throat problems — such as enlarged tonsils — and obesity often can narrow a child's airway, which can lead to your child developing OSA. Snoring occurs when air flows past relaxed tissues, such as your tongue, soft palate and airway, as you breathe. The sagging tissues narrow your airway, causing these tissues to vibrate.
Snoring can be caused by a number of factors, such as the anatomy of your mouth and sinuses, alcohol consumption, allergies, a cold, and your weight. When you doze off and progress from a light sleep to a deep sleep, the muscles in the roof of your mouth soft palate , tongue and throat relax. The tissues in your throat can relax enough that they partially block your airway and vibrate.
The more narrowed your airway, the more forceful the airflow becomes. This increases tissue vibration, which causes your snoring to grow louder. Habitual snoring may be more than just a nuisance. Aside from disrupting a bed partner's sleep, if snoring is associated with OSA, you may be at risk for other complications, including:. Snoring care at Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. There appears to be no higher prevalence of snoring among male subjects, and this further necessitates a study, with larger sample size.
The effect of female sex hormones on prevalence of snoring also needs to be addressed and investigated. Finally it is to be said that all adult snorers, are not going to be benefited by weight reduction. Source of Support: Nil. Conflict of Interest: None declared. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Journal List Lung India v. Lung India. Singh 2.
Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Address for correspondence: Dr. E-mail: moc. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background: Obesity is now a global epidemic. Materials and Methods: It is a cross sectional study, on subjects males and females. Results: Statistically significant difference, in prevalence rates of snoring was found, when obese and pre-obese group were compared with normal BMI group, separately.
Pregnancy Investigators approached different individuals, out of which 51 were rejected, as they either did not meet inclusion criteria, or they refused to participate in study. Table 1 Comparison between snorers and non snorers in relation to BMI and gender.
Open in a separate window. Table 2 Comparison of snorers and non-snorers in relation to low and high normal BMI. Table 3 BMI-wise relationship of neck circumference with snoring. Formiquera X, Canton A.
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