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The formerly accepted view that snoring is, at worst, an annoying or irritating factor in human sleep can no longer be maintained in the light of recent medical evidence. Snoring has been discovered to be an important pathophysiological and pathogenic factor, particularly in two fields: sleep apnea (SA) syndromes and essential hypertension. For patients with SA, histories of many years or even decades of loud and irregular snoring have been described [1]. Habitual snoring must be evaluated as an early symptom of obstructive SA [2, 3].
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Zahorka, M. et al. (1987). Snoring, Sleep Apnea, and Hypertension in a Field Study. In: Peter, J.H., Podszus, T., von Wichert, P. (eds) Sleep Related Disorders and Internal Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72560-9_24
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