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Burning Calories Snoring Is a Loud Distress Call December 17, 2008 03:59 PM ET By Bernadine Healy M.D. Some people are suggesting it might be good news that loud snorers—who are typically overweight—use up more calories than those who sleep quietly. I’d say, to the contrary. These are not the calories burned off during an aerobics class or a 20-minute jog in the park but rather an energy expenditure that reflects a body struggling to breathe instead of resting. And when those noisy fitful nights are habitual and cause daytime sleepiness, snoring is linked to chronic hypertension, elevated pressure in the arteries of the lungs, and a markedly greater risk of heart attack and stroke. Loud snoring is often dismissed with humor or with irritation—by those in nocturnal earshot—when in fact the snore deserves the same respect and sympathy as is granted the wheeze of an asthmatic. And unlike most wheezes, heavy snoring is usually accompanied by spurts of dangerously slow or interrupted respir
