Early Childhood Factors Raise Risk for Snoring

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These authors randomly selected almost 16,000 men and women aged 25 to 54 in Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, asking them to fill out a questionnaire soliciting information on how often and how loudly they snored in adulthood and environmental factors in their childhoods.

Eighteen percent of respondents reported "loud and disturbing" snoring at least three nights a week.

People who had been hospitalized for a respiratory infection before the age of 2 were 27 percent more likely to be "habitual snorers." Those who suffered from recurrent otitis or ear infections as a child were 18 percent more likely to snore, growing up in a large family increased the odds slightly, while having a dog at home as a newborn increased the odds by 18 percent.

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All of the same factors except household size were also linked with combined snoring and daytime sleepiness.

"We speculate that all these factors could promote an enlargening of tonsils with mouth breathing and a subsequent change of the mandibular growth that could promote snoring in adulthood," Franklin said. "Further studies are needed."

More information

The National Sleep Foundation has more on snoring.

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