Med Headlines - If you are sharing bed with a snoring partner, you have higher chances of being deprived of almost two years worth of sleep during your lifetime. A team of scientists from the University of Surrey made this startling revelation. The research team, led by Chris Frost from Lloyds pharmacy, added that your quality of life and health is severely affected if you are sharing bed with a partner who snores. Other than this, the suffering partner may be forced to move to another room, or experience disturbed sleep throughout his or her life.

Frost added, “Many snorers just don’t realize how much they affect their partner’s health and disrupt their sleep. Worse still, they don’t understand just how dangerous snoring can be for their own health. Snoring can cause high blood pressure and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.”

Scientists say that snoring affects your ability to get quality sleep. Such people feel more stressed throughout the day. The British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association says that snoring occurs as a result of shuddering of respiratory structures and the resultant noise, which occurs due to blocked movement of air while breathing.

Marianne Davey, the association’s co-founder, said: “Snoring is very disruptive to the bed partner. If the sleep disturbance goes on for many weeks, months and years it can have a physical and mental detrimental effect.”