Health
Helping the Snorer -- and the Bedmate
Sleeping with a snorer has been known to cause spouses to lose sleep for as long as snorers have snored. Sleep-deprived bed partners of snorers didn't need a study to reach that obvious conclusion.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are the first to document that partners on average lose an hour's worth of sleep to sleeping beauty's snoring. And they may be the first to consider snoring-disturbed sleep as a health threat instead of an annoyance.
Doctors at Mayo's Sleep Disorder Clinic say putting a lid on snoring and sleep apnea -- sudden stops and starts in sleep -- allowed a sharp improvement in the partner's quantity and quality of sleep. In a one-night study of 10 couples, researchers stopped men from snoring by putting a mask over their faces and found a 39-percent drop in spouses' sleep disturbances.
The study, made public in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, concludes that stifling sleep apnea and snoring can help partners get a good night's sleep. It may also lessen what doctors now believe is a potential threat to the health of a snorer's bedmate.
Check our ThirdAge Healthy Heart Index.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are the first to document that partners on average lose an hour's worth of sleep to sleeping beauty's snoring. And they may be the first to consider snoring-disturbed sleep as a health threat instead of an annoyance.
Doctors at Mayo's Sleep Disorder Clinic say putting a lid on snoring and sleep apnea -- sudden stops and starts in sleep -- allowed a sharp improvement in the partner's quantity and quality of sleep. In a one-night study of 10 couples, researchers stopped men from snoring by putting a mask over their faces and found a 39-percent drop in spouses' sleep disturbances.
The study, made public in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, concludes that stifling sleep apnea and snoring can help partners get a good night's sleep. It may also lessen what doctors now believe is a potential threat to the health of a snorer's bedmate.
Check our ThirdAge Healthy Heart Index.
