Snoring, Bad for Your Health

Is your spouse a snorer? Well, you can tell them that cutting those logs in the middle of the night could be the cause of high blood pressure. Yep. The American Board of Internal Medicine estimates that 50 to 60 percent of habitual loud snorers suffer from sleep apnea. This is when you stop breathing repeatedly throughout the night, which can cause some people to wake up, up to 100 times. This means that the body has to work harder to breath, which puts pressure on the heart, hence high blood pressure. If that were all you might ignore this news, but The Journal of Sleep found that those who snore have 34 percent greater odds of having a heart attack and a 67 percent greater chance of having a stroke. Yikes. Read the complete article here from Newsweek.