Snoring

Women who reported snoring or having poor diet quality during their first trimester were more likely to develop a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, increasing their risk for cardiovascular events after delivery, researchers reported.

A 70-year-old man presents to the office reporting that his wife made him come in to get evaluated for “horrible snoring.”

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Mouth Guard+, a mandibular advancement device designed to reduce snoring, according to a press release from SnoreLessNow.

Compared with watchful waiting, tonsil removal yielded improvements in behavior, symptoms and quality of life at 12 months among children with mild sleep-disordered breathing, according to results published in JAMA.

With advancements in artificial intelligence and patient-monitoring technology, properly diagnosing individuals who report wheezing, snoring, coughing or crackles is expected to get easier, according to a review published in CHEST.

Possibly driven partly by BMI, snoring and sleep apnea were associated with increased risk for hypertension and CAD, according to a Mendelian randomization analysis.

In a prospective study of more than 90,000 participants, short sleep duration and snoring were associated with elevated risk for incident HF.

Adults who go to sleep later, snore and nap for more than 30 minutes during the day are more likely to develop metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, according to study findings.

Low levels of serum estrogen and progesterone in middle-aged women were linked to a higher risk for obstructive sleep apnea symptoms, according to a population-based study published in PLOS ONE.

Snoring appeared common among urban, school-aged children and was associated with greater asthma burden, according to study results published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.