[Snoring and vascular diseases]. / El ronquido y las enfermedades vasculares.

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to review the evidence linking snoring with vascular disease. This has been a topic of numerous investigations with divergent results, mainly because of the differences in methodology employed in various studies, such as inclusion of confounding factors, methods of measures, etc. While some studies shows that snoring is a risk factor for vascular disease, another reached the opposite conclusion. Consequently, based on the available information, it s very difficult to conclude that snoring is an independent risk factor for vascular complications as hypertension and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.