title: Etiopathogenesis, prevention and therapeutic strategies of snoring pathologies.
abstract: The sleep of adults and childrens is often disturbed from obstructive respiratory desorders evidenced from snoring. Scientific literature agrees in considering that as a dangerous pathology called roncopathy. Statistics show that about 50% of adult population over 50 yrs snores (exspecially males) and some of that has a dangerous period of prolonged and frequent obstructive sleep apneas. Results of polisomnographic tests show that 4% of total population suffer of apneas extremely severe and dangerous for life. Roncopathy is often associated to a lot of troubles: pulmonary, gastroenterologic, endocrinologic, of behaviour and especially cardiovascular and neurologic and this could explain the motif of high nocturnal percentage of myocardial infarction, ictus and sudden death. In this work we evidence the anatomical and functional etiology of snoring and sleep apneas and expose the surgical and medical therapeutic options up to day available.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche Giorgio Segre, Università di Siena, Italia. gianni.rocchi@libero.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rocchi
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Munizzi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kaitsas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fonzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019186:Mandibular Advancement; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D010614:Pharynx / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017286:Polysomnography; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D012913:Snoring / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D014059:Tongue / Q000503:physiopathology