Sleep Apnea and Heart Disease
The Family Health Guide The snorts, whistles, gasps, and groans you make while sleeping may do more than rob you and your bed partner of a good night’s sleep. They may steal years of your life, too. That’s the message from two large studies that looked at the influence of sleep apnea, a special cause of snoring, on life span. What is sleep apnea? When you breathe, air usually flows soundlessly through the nasal passages and the pharynx (the back of the throat), and then on in
