Snoring is probably a commonplace phenomenon in your life. Many people are used to sleep with the sound of their family members snoring. Some people think that “snoring like thunder” is a sign of a good sleep, but in fact, serious snoring not only affects the rest of family members and their own sleep quality, but also induces high blood pressure and diabetes, and in serious cases, sudden death may occur due to breath-holding. Since it is difficult to notice, snoring has become a “killer” lurking in the sleep. Last September, an unfortunate event happened in Chengdu: the chairman of the largest steel logistics center in southwest China, the popular figure in Chengdu logistics industry, Guan Zhengui, died at the age of 54 while on a business trip in Nanchang. According to the doctor’s analysis, the cause of his death was probably asphyxiation caused by snoring in his sleep. You may feel surprised, snoring so often seen how can cause such serious consequences? I don’t know, snoring seems to be a normal thing, but it is a special category of disease in medical research. The consequences caused by snoring are actually multifaceted. Physiological snoring has a delicate, calm, slow and even sound, which often occurs after excessive physical fatigue or excessive alcohol consumption or smoking. If you snore frequently for years, even with daytime fatigue, drowsiness and other symptoms, then you are likely to suffer from “obstructive sleep apnea syndrome”. In layman’s terms, sleep apnea is a temporary pause in breathing that occurs during sleep. Generally speaking, a pause in breathing occurs when the airflow between the mouth and nose stops for more than 10 seconds. In a night of 7 hours of sleep, if the apnea occurs more than 30 times, and accompanied by daytime fatigue, drowsiness and other symptoms, it is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Due to snoring, breathing is repeatedly suspended during sleep, resulting in serious lack of oxygen to the brain and blood, forming hypoxemia, which can induce hypertension, cerebral heart disease, heart rate disorders, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris and other cardiovascular diseases. Brain damage caused by hypoxia and circulatory disorders can cause mental retardation, memory loss and personality changes. Chronic hypoxia can cause hypogonadism, erectile dysfunction or reduced libido in men. Children with obstructive sleep apnea have varying degrees of reduced release of growth hormone due to reduced rapid eye movement sleep, which is one of the factors affecting the slow growth of the sick child. And according to Johns? Hopkins University researchers reported in the U.S. journal Public Library of Science? The study found that the risk of death from sleep apnea in middle-aged and elderly people was 40% higher than that of people without sleep breathing problems, and the mortality rate was 17% higher than that of normal people even with mild sleep apnea; between the ages of 40 and Men between the ages of 40 and 70 with sleep apnea have the highest mortality rate. With more than 3,000 deaths per day due to snoring, snoring has become a life-threatening invisible killer. And in recent years, with the increasing standard of living, the increase of obese patients, especially abdominal obese people, the increase of people’s life pressure, the decrease of sleep time, overwork during the day, the increase of smoking, drinking and the use of stimulant drugs, the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome gradually increases, among which, abdominal obese people are the high-risk group of the disease. According to a survey of more than 6,000 people in China, 57.1% of people over 30 years old have snoring of different degrees, of which 33.4% are mild and 23.7% are moderate or severe snorers. In other words, there are five or six snorers among 10 people, and there are at least two moderate and severe snorers who are hazardous to health. So, how do we know if we are suffering from “obstructive sleep apnea syndrome”? If you snore like thunder and your family members find that your snoring is suddenly interrupted, or if you have any of the following conditions, you should seek medical attention: 1.Wake up feeling very tired even though you have slept all night. 2.Waking up repeatedly at night, involuntary tossing and turning, or even coma and convulsion. 3.Wake up with a headache and a dry mouth. 4.Always sleepy or napping during the day, even falling asleep at work or while driving. 5.Cranky and irritable, and higher blood pressure when waking up from sleep. 6.Low concentration or memory loss. 7.Decreased sex drive or erectile dysfunction in men. At present, the only test for “obstructive sleep apnea syndrome” is sleep apnea monitoring. This test is now available at the Department of Respiratory Medicine on the fourth floor of the Fourth People’s Hospital of Sichuan Province. Patients need to rest for one night in the hospital. The patient’s sleep quality and the effect of snoring on the patient can be known after the analysis of the sleep situation by using relevant instruments to monitor the sleep situation, including EEG, ECG, respiratory kinetics, respiratory airflow and many other indicators. Based on this result, the physician can give the corresponding treatment plan. For children, timely treatment can relieve the effects of snoring as soon as possible and allow them to grow up healthily. And for adults, it can improve the quality of life, prevent the problem before it happens and prolong the life.