What are the effects of snoring?

  Many people think that snoring is normal after people reach middle age, but in fact, snoring is a disease with great impact on the body, which can affect all organs of the body, and diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are closely related to snoring. A domestic sleep survey shows that 45% of people have snoring and other sleep disorders, which seriously affect their quality of life and work efficiency, and are prone to complications of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even sudden death at night in serious cases.  Middle-aged men and obese people are prone to snoring.  Mr. Ke has been high blood pressure in recent years, taking antihypertensive drugs but blood pressure is still not well controlled, and some time ago and therefore hospitalized. Later, after consultation by the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, it was found that he snored significantly and had severe apnea during sleep at night, with a minimum oxygen saturation of 63%. After the diagnosis was clear, the doctor performed surgery and Mr. Ke’s blood pressure returned to normal.  Snoring brings many physical dangers.  In addition to threatening health and life, snoring also affects the quality of rest, making people feel headache and dizziness, fatigue and weakness after waking up, and in serious cases, they can fall asleep while driving, eating and talking, so accidental casualties happen from time to time. In addition, snoring can cause brain hypoxia and damage, resulting in the early age of Alzheimer’s disease. Apnea causes lack of oxygen in the body, which causes excitement in the cardiovascular center and raises blood pressure, increasing the risk of arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and stroke. Due to the daily occurrence of disruption of sleep structure and severe sleep hypoxemia, it is easy to cause damage to several systems of the patient’s body and should be taken seriously.