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Help wake this snoring president!
BusinessDay, Nigeria -
We can ill afford a situation where a President will spend the first 30% of his tenure duration sleeping and snoring in the midst of ominously pervasive ...

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Resting uneasy: Heavy marketing of anti-snoring device worries some
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA -
By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A California firm's aggressive marketing of a medical device to treat snoring is making some sleep specialists ...

Cairns Newspapers
Stop snoring, start breathing
Cairns Newspapers,  Australia -
Canberra physiotherapist and Buteyko breathing practitioner Tess Lee Graham will be in Cairns from August 10 to 15 to help people with sleep apnoea breathe ...
Madison man dies after party Friends find 21-year-old not breathing
Ashtabula Star-Beacon, OH -
At 2 pm Saturday afternoon, Tate?s friends noticed the snoring had stopped, Hess said. ?When they couldn?t wake him up, they panicked and rushed him to ...
How We Met: Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip
Independent, UK - Aug 2, 2008
'On tour we have to have separate rooms, because Dan snores... And he's always late' Dan Le Sac 29(real name Dan Stephens) is an electronic musician whose ...

Sify
Slimming stops snoring
Sify, India - Jul 31, 2008
I snore in my sleep. Are there are any exercises or natural remedies for it? Does being overweight cause it? Please advise. Yes, being overweight by 20 per ...

The Age
The naked truth of cordial
The Age, Australia - 16 minutes ago
... tomorrow morning, open mouth in fly-catching position, and assume deep sleep with complementary snoring and slight side-of-mouth dribbling on clothing. ...

China Daily
Son's firecrackers staunch snores but prompt beating
China Daily, China - Jul 28, 2008
A 10-year-old boy got so sick of his father's snoring that he let off more than 10 firecrackers at noon last Saturday to wake him up and stop the racket. ...

CBS News
Purchasing Perfect Pillows
CBS News, NY - Aug 2, 2008
Snore-No-More: Perfect for those who snore and for their spouses, because it reduces snoring to promote a deeper, more restful sleep. ...
The Aspiring Cool Best Friend With Benefits
New York Magazine,  USA -
Falls into my bed, asks me to take care of him, promptly starts snoring. Loudly. 3:30 am: Unable to sleep through Pseudo's snoring. ...
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Snoring During Early Childhood and Academic Performance at Ages Thirteen to Fourteen Years -
D Gozal, DW Pope - Pediatrics, 2001 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... a. Child's name, address, telephone, gender, and race. b. Does your child snore
now? c. Does the father snore? d. Does the father smoke? ...

Effect of adenotonsillectomy on nocturnal hypoxaemia, sleep disturbance, and symptoms in snoring … -
JR Stradling, G Thomas, ARH Warley, P Williams, A … - Lancet, 1990 - Mass Med Soc
... Citation(s): Stradling JR et al. Effect of adenotonsillectomy on nocturnal hypoxaemia,
sleep disturbance, and symptoms in snoring children. ... Free. Sign Up Now! ...

Does Snoring Predict Sleepiness Independently of Apnea and Hypopnea Frequency? -
DJ GOTTLIEB, Q YAO, S REDLINE, T ALI, MW MAHOWALD - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2000 - Am Thoracic Soc
... nights per week, three to five nights per week, six to seven nights per week, or
unknown based on the response to the question "How often do you snore now?". ...

Children and nocturnal snoring: Evaluation of the effects of sleep related respiratory resistive … -
C Guilleminault, R Winkle, R Korobkin, B Simmons - European Journal of Pediatrics, 1982 - Springer
... ages ranged from 2 to 14 years, and who did not present snoring or obstructive ... during
the following 20 min, as described in the, by now, classical multiple ...

Snoring, apnoea and ENT symptoms in the paediatric community -
GO OWEN, RJ CANTER, A ROBINSON - Clinical Otolaryngology, 1996 - Blackwell Synergy
... This would suggest that snoring has few observable side effects and these children
enjoyed good health. It is now possible to put snoring and parental reports ...

Snoring: analysis, measurement, clinical implications and applications -
F Dalmasso, R Prota - European Respiratory Journal, 1996 - Eur Respiratory Soc
... sleep was not formally studied, the des- criptions that are now recognizable in ... 28
and 54), he described a form of hypersomnia with loud snoring, gluttony and ...

Neurobehavioral Implications of Habitual Snoring in Children -
LM O'Brien, CB Mervis, CR Holbrook, JL Bruner, CJ … - Pediatrics, 2004 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... It is possible that parents of snoring children were more likely to participate ... Such
methods are now being examined critically and include analysis of spectral ...

Sleep nasendoscopy: a technique of assessment in snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea -
CB CROFT, M PRINGLE - Clinical Otolaryngology, 1991 - Blackwell Synergy
... The adverse social, psychological and physical effects of tracheostomy have been
well described.? UVPP is now an established treatment for snoring and OSAS. ...

Snoring, Intermittent Hypoxia and Academic Performance in Primary School Children Supported by … -
MS Urschitz, A Guenther, E Eggebrecht, J Wolff, PM … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2003 - Am Thoracic Soc
... This observation could have a public health impact, as it suggests that habitual
snoring without intermittent hypoxia, up to now largely considered benign, may ...

Injection snoreplasty: How to treat snoring without all the pain and expense -
SE Brietzke, EA Mair - Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2001 - Elsevier
... Injection Snoreplasty has now been shown to be effective for primary snoring and
may play a role in the treatment of OSAS and nasal obstruction. ...

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Snoring now, hyperactive later?

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Several years ago, University of Michigan researchers published some of the strongest evidence yet that children who snore when they sleep are far more likely to have attention and hyperactivity problems than their non-snoring peers.

Today, that link takes on a new long-term dimension with the publication in the journal Sleep of follow-up data from some of the same children who took part in the earlier study.

Indeed, children in the original study who snored regularly, in comparison to those who did not, were about four times more likely to have developed new hyperactivity by the time the U-M team contacted their families four years later. In other words, snoring early in life predicted new or worsened behavior problems four years later.

Similar behavior was seen among children who had had other symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, in which repeated pauses in breathing disrupt sleep and can reduce blood oxygen levels. For example, children with daytime sleepiness in the original study were also more likely to have developed hyperactivity four years later.

The findings held true even after the researchers took into account which children already had been identified as hyperactive during the first study, and which ones were taking prescription behavior medicines during the follow-up survey. In fact says lead author and U-M sleep researcher Ronald D. Chervin, M.D., M.S., inattention and hyperactivity at follow-up were usually predicted better by snoring and other sleep apnea symptoms four years earlier than by those same symptoms at follow-up.

One group, the boys who were under the age of 8 and had the worst sleep-breathing problems during the first study, were approximately nine times more likely to have developed new hyperactivity four years later than boys of the same age who hadn't had such sleep problems.

The results are from a prospective study of 229 children who are now between the ages of 6 and 17. The children were drawn from the group of 866 2- to 13-year-olds whose parents were originally surveyed in the late 1990s, in the waiting rooms of several community-based pediatrics clinics. The parents agreed to allow the researchers to mail them a follow-up survey four years later; 229 returned it. The follow-up group was statistically comparable to the initial group.

Both at the baseline and at follow-up, the parents completed standardized questionnaires that measure a child's behavior and sleep characteristics. Children were encouraged to help their parents complete the questionnaires.

The initial study, published in March 2002 in the journal Pediatrics, found that kids who snored regularly were twice as likely as non-snorers to have hyperactivity or attention issues at the same time. Among boys under the age of 8, the rate was four times.

"To our knowledge, this new study is the first long-term, prospective research to show that regular snoring and other clues to the possible presence of sleep apnea predict future development of inattention and hyperactivity," says Chervin, M.D., M.S., the director of the U-M Health System's Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Disorders Laboratory and associate professor of neurology at the U-M Medical School. "These findings strengthen the hypothesis that untreated sleep-breathing problems in childhood can contribute to the development of hyperactivity."

Chervin and other sleep and breathing researchers have built up a large body of evidence on this issue in recent years. The sleep-behavior link rests on the concept that snoring, sleep apnea and other breathing problems during sleep diminish the quality of sleep, repeatedly reduce oxygen levels, and affect daytime behavior.

Data from small groups of children who received treatment for their sleep-breathing problems -- usually by removal of the tonsils and adenoids -- have indicated that behavior may improve as sleep improves. Larger studies of pre- and post-treatment sleep and behavior patterns are now underway; Chervin and his colleagues are currently analyzing data from one performed at U-M.

But definitive proof that breathing problems during sleep affect daytime behavior is still elusive, the U-M authors write. And a long-term randomized controlled trial, the gold standard of medical research, might never be done because it would require researchers to withhold treatment that has become an accepted standard of care.

The new paper is the first to show that sleep problems come before hyperactive behavior, and that one predicts the other - which may help bolster the sleep-behavior theory. "In research, a prospective study that follows a group over time and assesses them at two or more time points carries more weight than one that looks for risk factors and possible outcomes all at the same time," says Chervin. "That's what we set out to achieve, and we believe we've shown a clear predictive link."

The study combined two different validated survey instruments: one that asked parents about their children's behavior patterns, and one asking about snoring, sleepiness and characteristics that may indicate sleep-disordered breathing problems.

The sleep portion of the survey asked about frequency and severity of snoring, as well as the tendency to struggle to breathe or stop breathing temporarily during the night, to breathe through the mouth during the day, to wake up feeling unrefreshed, or to have a hard time waking up. All these can mean a child has sleep-disordered breathing, which can affect the quality of sleep. Scores for snoring frequency and severity, and for sleepiness and sleep-disordered breathing, were tallied for each child to allow each tendency to be considered on its own.

The behavior portion of the survey asked about attention to tasks and schoolwork, distraction, forgetfulness, fidgeting, inappropriate action and excessive talking, as well as other symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The children were assigned scores based on the total number of attributes their parents said applied to them, and how often.

Chervin and his colleagues say that a further prospective study is needed to confirm their results and compensate for some of their study's limitations. The research focused on a mild to moderate level of hyperactivity, and it's not certain whether the findings would apply to children with full Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. The authors also note that more precise measures of sleep-breathing problems, and of sleep quality, might reveal even more.

Until such studies can be done, he says, parents should pay attention to their children's sleep -- and their own.

"Sleep problems in both children and adults are often undiagnosed, even though they can have a major impact on health, behavior and quality of life," he says. "Getting enough sleep, adopting good sleep habits, and seeking medical attention for issues such as habitual snoring, daytime sleepiness and the breathing interruptions of sleep apnea can have a huge impact on the life of a child or adult." He notes that people interested in more information can start by contacting the National Sleep Foundation, http://www.sleepfoundation.org.

In addition to Chervin, the authors of the new paper are Department of Neurology Research Associate Deborah Ruzicka, R.N., Ph.D.; Kristen Hedger Archbold, R.N., Ph.D., a research assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Nursing; and U-M adjunct clinical child psychiatrist James E. Dillon, M.D. Reference: Sleep, Vol. 28, No. 8, July 2005, pp. 746-751.

Contact: Kara Gavin
kegavin@umich.edu
734-764-2220
University of Michigan Health System
med.umich.edu/prmc/media/relarch.cfm
 
 
 
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