Snoring and Your Spouse.

Your spouse has been claiming this for years, but now there's proof: a new Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace.

Mayo Clinic

voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723]

See : Medicine study confirms that your partner is losing ZZZZZZ's because of your snoring snoring, rough, vibratory sounds made in breathing during sleep or coma. The noisy breathing is the result of an open mouth and a relaxation of the palate; it is frequently induced by lying on one's back. .

Investigators studied married couples in which the husband was being evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
A potentially life-threatening condition characterized by episodes of breathing cessation during sleep alternating with snoring or disordered breathing. as a possible cause of snoring. After measuring the amount of time each partner spent sleeping under normal conditions

This article is about the philosophical argument; for normal conditions in the sense of standards see the corresponding articles, e.g. Standard conditions for temperature and pressure.

, the snoring patients were fitted with a masklike device designed to stop the snoring. Not only did the snoring patient sleep better, but the non-snoring spouse's sleep time increased 13 percent, which translates to about an hour of extra sleep per night.

(Mayo Clinic)

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