Snoring and sleep apnea may cause complications
Nov 03, 2024
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Snoring refers to the sound generated by vibrating the area around the neck, including the soft palate and palate (the Adam's apple), as it passes through the airways with narrowed respiratory airflow during sleep. In other words, snoring is not a sound from the nose. Snoring is more common in men and tends to increase with age, and women increase after menopause. Drinking, taking sedatives, sleeping pills, and antihistamines can worsen snoring.
Snoring itself is difficult to see as a disease, but your sleep partner may suffer from lack of sleep, irritation irritability, and anxiety. In addition, the story is different if sleep apnea is accompanied by blocked airflow during sleep. Sleep apnea is a frequent occurrence of respiratory arrest during sleep, resulting in hypoxia and hypercarbonemia, which leads to abnormally high carbon dioxide in the blood, and causing a state of awakening.
If you have sleep apnea, you often wake up, so you have difficulties in your daily life due to chronic fatigue and drowsiness. In particular, fatigue, personality changes, and severe headaches due to carbon dioxide accumulation can occur. In particular, excessive sleepiness during the day complains in 87% of patients with obstructive sleep apnea. If sleep apnea persists, it also puts strain on blood vessels and the brain. Cardiopulmonary diseases such as arrhythmia, high blood pressure, ischemic heart disease, and respiratory failure may worsen or cause.
Patients with sleep apnea have four to five times higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and stroke than normal people. There is also a result that 80% of intractable hypertension patients, accounting for 50% of hypertension patients, suffer from sleep apnea. In particular, sleep apnea occurs not only in adults but also in children. In this case, growth slows down, concentration, cognitive decline, and attention deficit occur.
It is important to check whether snoring is accompanied by sleep apnea, which is confirmed by a sleep test. The sleep test checks the degree of apnea during sleep by taking a day's sleep and performing electromyography, electrocardiogram, and electrocardiogram tests. Apnea refers to stopping breathing for more than 10 seconds. Obstructive sleep apnea defines a case in which apnea is more than 5 times per hour as a result of a sleep test.
Kim Jin-hee, head of the neurology department at Seran Hospital, said "The patient himself often does not know the degree of snoring or sleep apnea. Men, obese people, heavy drinkers, smokers, complaining of nasal congestion, or having daytime sleepiness, should be tested. He explained that "If obstructive sleep apnea is left untreated, the risk of complications increases, and the risk of safety accidents increases due to lack of sleep.".
Manager Kim Jin-hee said, `If you have symptoms of sleepiness during the day, symptoms of stopping your breath while sleeping, headaches and fatigue when you wake up, you may suspect sleep apnea,' adding, `If sleep apnea improves, the risk of stroke and high blood pressure decreases, so you should choose a treatment method for snoring and sleep apnea through a sleep test" he advised.
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