A new study published in Journal Chest May 2010 issue reveals that obese children are much more likely to snore than normal weight children. Italian researchers compared 44 children with habitual snoring, 138 children with occasional snoring, and 627 children who did not snore. Of those children, 64 were obese, 121 were overweight, and 624 were normal weight.

The incidence of snoring among obese children was 12.5 percent, more than two times higher than that of overweight children (5.8 percent) and three times higher than that of normal weight children (4.6 percent).

The researchers also found that obese children were nearly twice as likely to have obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing-related sleep disorder, as overweight or normal weight children.

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This is really a fantastic news for anyone affected by loud snoring. A small clinical trial in the U.S. shows that an anti snoring pill can cut snoring rates by as much as 70%. No need to buy anti snoring devices or undergo surgical procedure. Bigger studies are planned to see if the drug could be the magic bullet in the treatment of sleep apnoea.

According to Daily Mail UK

A pill is regarded by some experts as the holy grail of snoring therapy.

The new drug, called Qnexa, was developed as a weightloss medicine. It contains a mixture of a stimulant drug called phentermine and an anti-epilepsy drug called topiramate.
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