The researchers believe that the trauma caused by vibration during snoring can cause thickening of the arteries. The researchers say the vibration due to snoring can be detrimental to health. As quoted from the Mirror, Wednesday (10/16/2013), snoring could be a sign of disturbance that is hiding behind it, such as a stroke or a heart.
This is because the habit of snorers more likely to have carotid artery in the neck that is the main artery that supplies oxygenated blood to the brain most. Researchers at the University of Detroit, USA, believes that the trauma caused by the vibrations of snoring can cause inflammation that leads to thickening of the arteries and reduces blood flow.
They say this is the first stage of the process of atherosclerosis (arteries become stiff, thickened and no longer pliable or elastic) and increases the risk of transient ischemic attack (heart attack) and stroke. "Actually, snoring vibrations may damage the carotid artery may be but not yet proven, but beware," said Director of Clinical Cardiac Services at King's College Hospital, London, Dr. Philip MacCarthy.
Snoring is also associated with hardening of the arteries around the heart that can cause a heart attack. Three million Britons sleep apnea disorder that makes the muscle tissue in the throat thickened and stiffened. Recent studies also demonstrate the vibrations of snoring can affect vision.
Researchers in Taiwan recently announced that people with sleep apnea often snore loudly during sleep, almost two times more likely to be at risk of developing glaucoma eye disorders.
Taiwanese scientists analyzed data from 1,000 patients with sleep apnea and 6,000 who did not. Patients were almost twice as likely to suffer glaucoma risk with increased pressure within the eyeball causing gradual loss of vision. The researchers believe this is because sleep apnea can reduce the amount of oxygen getting to the eye thereby increasing the risk of glaucoma.
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