Women snoring shameful

Yes, women snore and snoring is shameful. Is this the reason why women keep away from admitting that they snore?

We all know that women usually do not admit that they snore during sleep and even when they do, they insist that their snoring is not as loud as men, which turned out to be incorrect.

Snoring may be a symptom of sleep apnea, which increases a person's chances of serious consequences such as high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

It was not possible to contact the researchers for comment, but they issued a press release.

“We discovered that although there was no difference in the severity of snoring between the sexes, women tended not to disclose the fact that they suffer from this problem and underestimate the problem,” said Dr. Nimrod Maimon, head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Soroka University Medical Center, who co-authored the study in the statement. How loud are their snoring?

He added, "Since women usually do not talk about suffering from snoring as much as men do and describe it as less severe, this may be one of the obstacles that prevent women from going to sleep clinics to participate in studies."

The study included 1913 patients, 675 women and 1238 men, and the average age of the group was 49 years. The researchers asked patients to answer questions in a questionnaire about the intensity of their snoring, then the patients fell asleep and the snoring was recorded with a digital sound scale. The severity of snoring was classified as mild when it was between 40 and 45 decibels, moderate between 45 and 55 decibels, severe between 55 and 60 decibels, and very severe when it recorded at least 60 decibels.

When analyzing the sound, it was found that there is no difference in the loudness of the snoring sound between women and men. Although 28 percent of the women reported that they did not snore, only nine percent of them did. For men, 6.8 percent said they did not snore, and the percentage was in fact only 3.5 percent.

These findings show the need for doctors to look for other signs of sleep apnea in women, rather than waiting for them to voluntarily talk about their snoring, the researchers said.