Moran W B, Orr W C, Fixley M S, Wittels E E
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1984 Dec;92(6):608-10. doi: 10.1177/019459988409200602.
Until recently, snoring had been considered both a medical enigma and a psychosocial problem. Snoring is now considered to be an acoustic phenomenon produced by vibration of the soft palate and the tonsillar pillars. We describe 20 patients with a clinical complaint of excessive snoring who were referred to rule out obstructive sleep apnea. All patients were without symptoms of daytime sleepiness and failure of the right heart. Twenty subjects were studied, 18 of whom were males. All subjects were monitored for one full night in the Sleep Laboratory. The apnea rate ranged from 9.0 to 94.0 incidents an hour with a mean of 30.0. Eight of the 20 subjects had obstructive episodes longer than 1 minute and three others had episodes longer than 55 seconds. Hypersomnolence, long thought to be a cardinal symptom, is not present in all patients with an ostensibly significant degree of obstructive sleep apnea.
直到最近，打鼾一直被视为一个医学谜团和一个社会心理问题。现在认为打鼾是由软腭和扁桃体柱振动产生的一种声学现象。我们描述了20例因主诉打鼾过多而被转诊以排除阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的患者。所有患者均无白天嗜睡和右心功能不全的症状。研究了20名受试者，其中18名男性。所有受试者均在睡眠实验室接受了一整晚的监测。呼吸暂停发生率为每小时9.0至94.0次，平均为30.0次。20名受试者中有8人阻塞性发作持续时间超过1分钟，另外3人发作持续时间超过55秒。长期以来被认为是主要症状的嗜睡，并非在所有表面上有明显程度阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的患者中都存在。
