The Link Between Snoring and Heart Disease

I want to share this with you cos it is a major concern of mine. At one point of time, when my snoring was really severe, my wife was worried that my heart would stop while sleeping. Here's some info about the link between snoring and heart diseases.

CardioValens.com : Matters of the Heart: "Severe snoring and blood pressure

A strong link between snoring and heart disease has been hypothesized in the last decade. The relationship between snoring and hypertension has further strengthened the hypothesis.

When people have severe snoring, they develop periods of pausing to their breathing and often fragmented sleep, and fragmented sleep or sleep deprivation can lead to stress on the heart in itself. Besides, when people snore and arouse from sleep, these are often subconscious arousals, the blood pressure is surging up and down during sleep and one of the problems is that measuring that blood pressure is extraordinarily difficult outside a research situation, but if you measure blood pressure directly, continuously during sleep, you often find surges of blood pressure going up and down, and the rises in blood pressure mean that the heart is having to work against upstream resistance.

Studies have found that a higher morbidity and mortality for cardiovascular disease was found in snorers with risk factors as compared with non-snorers having risk factors. Researchers have concluded that although snoring worsened the prognosis of patients with risk factors for cardiovascular disease, it is not an independent or predictive risk factor by itself.

The oxygen levels in snorers are falling during the night and due to this the heart muscle gets stiff. It doesn't relax and fill easily. So the heart doesn't pump as effectively when there are low oxygen levels."

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