Snoring Runs in Families
A study of one-year-olds has found that children of parents who snore are three times as likely to snore as well. What’s the biggie? Children who suffer from severe snoring tend to have:
- Poor school performance
- Cardiovascular problems
- Daytime behavioral problems, e.g., attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Does this finding warrant this opening salvo from The New York Times?
Title: In the Genes: When the Littlest Family Member Snores, Too
Opening Sentence: Snoring may be genetic.
May I remind everyone that just because a family tends to have a particular trait like snoring doesn’t mean that it’s mainly due to genetics. As the article later goes on to point out, allergies play an important role as well; a positive allergy test almost doubled the risk for snoring. No definitive sleep disorder examination in a sleep laboratory was performed in this study and neither were any candidate genes identified.
Time to review genetics quiz #1: Genetic = Inherited?
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