21 Jun 2024

How snoring could be a sign of heart problems

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 21 June 2024

That loud snoring keeping you up at night could be more than a noisy annoyance - it could be bad for your heart.

Australian researchers have identified snoring as a possible early warning sign of dangerously high blood pressure

The study, published in the prestigious Nature Digital Medicine journal was carried out by sleep experts at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Professor Danny Eckert is Director of Sleep Health at Flinders University and senior author of the paper. He speaks to Mark.

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