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House Call: Snoring, Headaches

Aired April 23, 2003 - 07:54   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Making a "House Call" this morning to look at some of the top health stories, our medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The old man is snoring.
Good morning to you.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.

Yes, we're looking at snoring and its relationship to headaches, so this is a pretty big topic actually, a topic so big, in fact, that the "Journal of Neurology" published a paper on it. They decided to research this particular issue.

They divided the people into two groups. People who have what are known as chronic daily headaches -- that's the people who suffer from headaches at least 15 times a month. And people who have an occasional headache -- that's just about everybody else.

And what they found over a period of time was that people who had the more headaches, the chronic daily headaches, were more than twice as likely also to be snorers. Now, they're trying to develop a link there, having not quite done that. But what they do know is that snoring is related to lots of different things, including fatigue, and also something known as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be a link to heart disease, stoke and many other things.

Now, again, they need to develop that link to show that whether or not snoring and decreasing snoring actually will decrease headaches. That hasn't been done yet. For people with chronic daily headaches, though, if they are also snorers, this is something they may be want to look into -- Bill.

HEMMER: Yes, we do not like them. I wasn't calling you an old man, by the way; just a snorer.

GUPTA: Yes, I was wondering about that.

HEMMER: See you next hour, Sanjay.

(CROSSTALK)

GUPTA: All right.

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Aired April 23, 2003 - 07:54   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Making a "House Call" this morning to look at some of the top health stories, our medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The old man is snoring.
Good morning to you.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.

Yes, we're looking at snoring and its relationship to headaches, so this is a pretty big topic actually, a topic so big, in fact, that the "Journal of Neurology" published a paper on it. They decided to research this particular issue.

They divided the people into two groups. People who have what are known as chronic daily headaches -- that's the people who suffer from headaches at least 15 times a month. And people who have an occasional headache -- that's just about everybody else.

And what they found over a period of time was that people who had the more headaches, the chronic daily headaches, were more than twice as likely also to be snorers. Now, they're trying to develop a link there, having not quite done that. But what they do know is that snoring is related to lots of different things, including fatigue, and also something known as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be a link to heart disease, stoke and many other things.

Now, again, they need to develop that link to show that whether or not snoring and decreasing snoring actually will decrease headaches. That hasn't been done yet. For people with chronic daily headaches, though, if they are also snorers, this is something they may be want to look into -- Bill.

HEMMER: Yes, we do not like them. I wasn't calling you an old man, by the way; just a snorer.

GUPTA: Yes, I was wondering about that.

HEMMER: See you next hour, Sanjay.

(CROSSTALK)

GUPTA: All right.

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