Scientists from the British University of Surrey, spending survey found that snoring people not only shorten your life, not struggling with it, but also undermine the health of his partner, who lost almost two years of sleep.
Snoring husband forces his wife to wake up and go into another room, or to condemn oneself to a sleepless night. Researchers estimate that about 3.5 million people, most of them women, are constantly awake snoring partner. On average, every night they lose an hour of sleep.
Scientists estimate that people who sleep next to snoring spouse, annually lose more than 15 days of sleep. Previously, it was shown that snoring is able to increase the risk of hypertension, heart attacks and strokes - that person who snores.
Now, however, found that the health and quality of life partners "snorers" very severely affected. How to prevent snoring sleep at night and in the morning these people feel terrible fatigue. If sleep disturbances persist for weeks, months and years, it can cause damage to the physical and mental health, warn experts.
As a result, fatigue and irritability due to lack of sleep people start to quarrel. A person suffering from snoring should be aware of the problem and try to fix it somehow.
The researchers emphasize that the treatment of snoring men and women are different: women who snore are usually shunned and stigmatized as "unfeminine." The men said their snoring unintentional, and therefore acceptable everyday occurrence. This is considered a manifestation of masculinity, much like burping and men believe that it is normal.
It is known that in many cases, snoring can be fought: the situation can be corrected by different methods - from surgery to specialized devices that are mounted in the mouth, or masks for sleeping.