"When Matt Hillier was in his 20s, he went camping with a friend who was a nurse. In the morning she told him she had been shocked by the snoring coming from his tent. She basically said, For a 25-year-old non-smoker who's quite skinny, you snore pretty loudly,' says Hiller, now 32. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more."
"Perhaps because of the pervasive image of a typical sleep apnoea patient older, and overweight Hillier didn't seek help. It wasn't until he was 30 that he finally went to a doctor after waking up from a particularly big night of snoring with a racing heartbeat. Despite being young, active and a healthy weight, further investigation including a night recording his snoring revealed that he had moderate sleep apnoea."
"His was classed as supine, the most common form of the condition, meaning it happens when he sleeps on his back, and is likely caused by his throat muscles. It's weird because I'm normally quite quiet and polite. So to hear recordings of me snoring like a rhinoceros grunting was a bit shocking. So, too, was his diagnosis: I thought I was too young and healthy, and I had no family history."
Matt Hillier, a healthy 30-year-old, experienced loud snoring and nighttime racing heartbeats and was diagnosed with moderate, supine sleep apnoea after a night recording. Supine apnoea occurs when throat muscles collapse during back sleeping. Genetic anatomical factors can contribute, with family members often snoring. Over the past decade snoring prevalence has risen substantially, creating what experts call a snoring epidemic. Contributing factors include pollution, rising temperatures and increasing obesity rates. The British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association estimates about 15 million UK snorers. Snoring remains stigmatized despite potential health implications.
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