Snoring is what people usually call snoring while sleeping. But what is less known is that among the huge snoring population, there are indeed some people who suffer from a potentially fatal disease – obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, which is caused by airway obstruction and gas cannot enter or leave the lungs.
Health hazards: The hazards of snoring are not only to make you feel tired for a long time, disturb the sleep of people around you, destroy your relationship with your spouse or roommate, but more importantly, the long-term lack of oxygen leads to serious damage to the organs of the body and even sudden death.
Diseases caused by long-term snoring and apnea: cardiovascular diseases: arrhythmia, hypertension, heart failure, coronary heart disease, sudden death at night; respiratory diseases: pulmonary heart disease, respiratory failure, asthma at night; neurological diseases: ischemic cerebrovascular disease, cerebral hemorrhage, dementia, memory loss, personality change; endocrine diseases: diabetes, obesity, growth retardation in children; sexual dysfunction: impotence, libido loss Kidney damage: proteinuria, nocturia; other: headache, erythrocytosis, gastroesophageal reflux disease.