Snoring people are always complained by someone else, the relationship with the same room or spouse become extremely nervous.

However, more damage is sleep apnea caused by snoring, the airway of snoring is narrower than normal airway. In severe,  airway may be completely obstructed leading to sleep apnea. If sleep apnea occurs, air can not enter the lungs, causing the body hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention. In severe cases, snoring can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, arrhythmia, cerebral vascular accident, diabetes, kidney disease, hypothyroidism, or even sudden death during sleep.

Snoring also has a negative impact on many diseases, aggravating the original disease, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, obstructive emphysema easily developed to pulmonary heart disease. Many patients in their sleep due to sleep disturbance cause cardiac, cerebrovascular hypoxia, even cause sudden death occurs at night in the unconscious state. Data shows that the sudden death caused by sleep apnea accounted for 20% of accidental deaths. This sleep disorder has become a serious threat to people’s health.

Childhood is the period of brain development, cognitive ability and skills rapid development. Due to tonsillar hypertrophy, adenoid hypertrophy of the children leading to children snoring. Due to airway resistance increased, they breathe difficulty during sleep, the sleep cycle destroyed, resulting in difficulty with concentrating, offensive and hyperactivity in children. These would hinder children’s learning, and also inhibit the child’s intellectual potential, resulting in irreversible damage.  At the same time, children snoring can also cause bed-wetting and developmental retardation.

Snoring people due to the poor quality of sleep, they have no spirit at the day time, decrease the efficiency of work and study. Snoring people, especially the driver who are snoring, driving inability to concentrate, prone to car accidents. Thus causing personal injuries to themselves and other people, so snoring has become a major problem in society.

Factors that may increase your risk of snoring include:

• Being male

It is a well know fact that men are more likely to snoring than women. Studies show that as many as 40 per cent of men snoring while the numbers are at 30 per cent for women. More men snoring than women for reasons that depend on their lifestyle though certain physical reasons can also cause the problem.

• Age

Older people are more pre-disposed to snoring as age affects muscle tone.  One study reports that among men, the chance that they will begin snoring increases until 50 to 60 years of age and then decreases.

• Heredity

A narrow throat, a cleft palate, enlarged adenoids and other physical attributes which contribute to snoring can be hereditary.

• Obesity

One of the many factors that can contribute to a snoring condition is obesity. When your body starts to become overweight, fat deposits begin to sprout up in various areas of the body, and the neck is no exception. Excess fatty tissues in the throat area is a sure-fire cause of snoring problems and one of the most common reasons for why a person snores. Click here to see how weight increases snoring ?

• Smoking

Recent studies have proven that there is a link between smoking and snoring with smokers more likely to have a higher incidence of snoring than non-smokers. Another frightening statistic is that those who are exposed to cigarette smoke in their environment, who are effectively passive smokers, are more likely to be heavy snorers too.

• Alcohol or sedative medicines

Alcohol relaxes the muscles of the body more so than normal sleeping does. Since your muscles are more relaxed while under the influence, your orophanyx (the back of your throat) begins to collapse more rapidly then when sober. Alcohol is not the only problem that can lead to these issues.  Sedative medicines are another things that will affect you in much the same way as alcohol does. Click here to see Does Drinking Alcohol Cause Snoring?

• Chronic nasal congestion

At rest and during sleep, nasal breathing is the natural human state. If a situation exists whereby insufficient air is taken in by nasal breathing, mouth breathing takes over. When nasal congestion forces mouth breathing during sleep, greater negative pressure develops behind the uvula and soft palate. This negative pressure increases the vibration of these “noise-makers” during sleep, helping to create the sound we know as snoring. Click here to see Chronic Nasal Congestion is a Risk Factor for Snoring

• Jaw abnormalities

Jaw abnormalities, such as a small chin and overbite ( class II malocclusion the upper jaw and teeth overlap the bottom jaw and teeth). This may be an especially important factor in women