The study included 12,643 Hungarians who were asked about their snoring habits. The researchers led by Marta Novak, of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at Semmelweis University in Budapest, also took into consideration factors like age, sex, body mass index, diabetes, level of education, smoking, and alcohol consumption.

They found that people who snored the loudest had a 40 percent greater chance of developing hypertension or high blood pressure than their non-snoring counterparts. They also had a 34 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 67 percent increased risk of suffering from a stroke.

"Snoring is frequent in the Hungarian adult population, and loud snoring with breathing pauses, in contrast with quiet snoring, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and increased health-care utilization," the authors wrote in the latest edition of the journal Sleep.

Snoring usually indicates that the upper airway is blocked to an extent. Snoring can be an irritation for spouses and anecdotal evidence exists that it has been a cause for divorce as well.

Snoring is also linked to a condition called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), wherein the tissue present in the back of the throat usually collapses midway during the sleep cycle causing wakefulness. Obese people are also more likely to snore as are pregnant women.
 

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