| 41. | If you are the snorer, don't laugh it off, especially if you've put on the pounds over the years.
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| 42. | Recently, however, I read of a peculiar study conducted among snorers which implied that snoring is a direct result of excess body weight.
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| 43. | The snorer wears a mask hooked up to a hose linked to a shoe box-sized air-compressor capable of producing precise pressures.
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| 44. | A quarter of the middle-aged population snore regularly with more in old age; some snorers achieve noise levels louder than a pneumatic drill.
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| 45. | Men are three times more likely than women to have apnea, but female snorers are prime candidates, too, especially if they are overweight.
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| 46. | So I took a bed with a fellow who coughed and spit and moaned all night on one side, and a snorer on the other.
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| 47. | In an extreme case of listener annoyance, the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is remarked to have fatally shot a loud snorer in the next room.
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| 48. | In this, the snorer stops breathing briefly-- up to 300 times a night-- resulting in inadequate sleep and potentially dangerous daytime drowsiness.
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| 49. | The record for the loudest snorer, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is a Southampton, England, man at 91 to 92 decibels.
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| 50. | "If people tell you you are a loud snorer, " says Winkelman of McLean, " believe them and see a doctor.
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