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Article: Snoring may cause brain damage in sleep apnoea patients.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- May 18, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Melbourne, May 18 (ANI): Snoring could severely impair brain function among sleep apnoea sufferers, say researchers at the University of New South Wales.
The researchers have found that the changes in brain biochemistry linked with obstructive sleep apnoea have been compared to changes evident in people who have "had a severe stroke or who are dying".
"It used to be thought that apnoea snoring had absolutely no acute effects on brain function but this is plainly not true," News.com.au quoted Professor Caroline Rae, lead author of the study, as saying in a statement.
It is believed that the impairment is caused due to the ...