It took years of nagging and my wife sleeping in a different room to get me to ask my doctor about ways to control snoring.
When I finally went, my savvy primary care physician asked me a series of questions that helped to simply identify the likely cause for the snoring. My doctor had me go [...]
The American Heritage Dictionary defines sleep apnea as “A temporary suspension of breathing occurring repeatedly during sleep that often affects overweight people or those having an obstruction in the breathing tract, an abnormally small throat opening, or a neurological disorder.”
The current definition in Wikipedia (the human edited encyclopedia) is this:
Sleep apnea (alternatively sleep [...]