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1. Snoring and stopping breathing during sleep associated with depression, even in people whose
symptoms do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, a new study has
found
2. Researchers studied 9,714 men and women participating in an ongoing national health survey
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They used interviews about sleep symptoms
and a well-validated questionnaire that screens adults for depression. The report appears in the
April issue of the journal Sleep.
3. Among those with a diagnosis of obstructive sleep, depression was more than twice as common
among men and more than five times as common among women, compared with those who did
not have the condition. But the researchers also found that those whose partners reported that
they snorted or stopped breathing were also significantly more likely to have depression, with the
likelihood increasing with frequency of symptoms.
4. Men who were affected five or more nights a week were almost four times as likely to suffer
depression as those who never had the symptoms. Women with these sleep troubles were more
than twice as likely to be depressed. Apart, Anne G. Wheaton, a CDC epidemiologist who led the
study, said the symptoms may also lead to lighter sleep and a red a reduction of oxygen to the
brain.