I have a confession to make. Whilst not wishing to shatter too many illusions I have to admit that I snore. Don’t laugh! My wife certainly doesn’t see the funny side, and has resorted to sleeping with earplugs! (I haven’t been relegated to the spare room…..yet)! Apparently one in four middle age men suffer this same affliction.
But now I really must pay heed. New research from the University of New South Wales has found that snoring associated with sleep apnoea may impair brain function more than previously thought. Professor Rae and collaborators from Sydney University’s Woolcock Institute used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the brains of 13 men with severe, untreated, obstructive sleep apnoea. They found that even a moderate degree of oxygen desaturation during the patients sleep had significant effects on the brains bioenergetic status.
So people it really is time to stop treating snoring as a laughing matter. Take my poll and let me know that I am not alone in my suffering!
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