HEALTHFOR ALL
Snoring to your heart's content
- Published: 7 Aug 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Your sleep can greatly affect your heart's health, especially if you are always having trouble getting a good night in.
I'm not talking about insomnia (which is also a problem, but we'll cover that some other time) but rather about sleep apnoea, which is a sleep disorder characterised by abnormal pauses in breathing during sleep, commonly found in obese people.
Sleep apnoea can cause blood pressure to rise and is caused by abnormalities in the respiratory tract and sometimes in the brain's breathing centre.
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