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- <text id=93TT1640>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: A Wake-Up Call for Heavy Snorers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE Page 26
- A Wake-Up Call for Heavy Snorers
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The debilitating disorder called sleep apnea may be
- affecting millions
- </p>
- <p> Some people get a miserable night's sleep and don't even
- know it. But for a debilitating grogginess the day after, they
- haven't a clue that they passed the wee hours dozing, then
- waking, then dozing again. The disorder is called sleep apnea,
- and according to University of Wisconsin researchers, millions
- of Americans have it.
- </p>
- <p> As the sufferer is snoozing, throat muscles that keep
- breathing passages open relax so much that the airway closes.
- As much as a minute may pass before the sleeper gasps for air
- and rouses briefly. In a study reported in the New England
- Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 4% of women and 9%
- of men stopped breathing at least 15 times an hour during a
- night's sleep. Because they are seldom fully awake, most apnea
- sufferers are unaware that their sleep is disrupted. The only
- clue may come from a bed partner whose own rest is disturbed by
- the breathing fits and starts. Besides cutting down on
- productivity, experts believe, apnea contributes to car and job
- accidents and may be a factor in strokes and heart attacks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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