Snoring and carotid artery intima-media thickness

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A growing body of evidence indicates that primary snoring (PS) may be the initial presentation of sleep-disordered breathing and can adversely affect an individual's health. Individuals with the sole diagnosis of PS were evaluated to determine if a relationship exists between snoring and thickening of the intima media of the carotid arteries.

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This study was done to assess the relationship between prevalent cardiovascular disease and arterial wall thickness in middle-aged US adults. The association of preexisting coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease with carotid and popliteal intimal-medial thickness (IMT) (measured by B-mode ultrasound) was assessed in 13,870 black and white men and women, aged 45 to 64, during the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study baseline examination (1987 through 1989). Prevalent disease was determined according to both participant self-report and measurements at the baseline examination (including electrocardiogram, fasting blood glucose, and medication use). Across four race and gender strata, mean carotid far wall IMT was consistently greater in participants with prevalent clinical cardiovascular disease than in disease-free subjects. Similarly, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease was consistently greater in participants with progressively thicker IMT. The greatest differences in carotid IMT associated with prevalent disease were observed for reported symptomatic peripheral vascular disease (0.09 to 0.22 mm greater IMT in the four race-gender groups). These data document the substantially greater arterial wall thickness observed in middle-aged adults with prevalent cardiovascular disease. Both carotid and popliteal arterial IMT were related to clinically manifest cardiovascular disease affecting distant vascular beds, such as the cerebral, peripheral, and coronary artery vascular beds.

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Tissue vibration induces carotid artery endothelial dysfunction: a mechanism linking snoring and carotid atherosclerosis?

Terence Amis, Paul K. Witting, Sarah R Wheatley … (2011)

We have previously identified heavy snoring as an independent risk factor for carotid atherosclerosis. In order to explore the hypothesis that snoring-associated vibration of the carotid artery induces endothelial dysfunction (an established atherogenic precursor), we utilized an animal model to examine direct effects of peri-carotid tissue vibration on carotid artery endothelial function and structure. In supine anesthetized, ventilated rabbits, the right carotid artery (RCA) was directly exposed to vibrations for 6 h (peak frequency 60 Hz, energy matched to that of induced snoring in rabbits). Similarly instrumented unvibrated rabbits served as controls. Features of OSA such as hypoxemia, large intra-pleural swings and blood pressure volatility were prevented. Carotid endothelial function was then examined: (1) biochemically by measurement of tissue cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) to acetylcholine (ACh) and sodium nitroprusside (SNP); and (2) functionally by monitoring vessel relaxation with acetylcholine in a myobath. Vessel cGMP after stimulation with ACh was reduced in vibrated RCA compared with unvibrated (control) arteries in a vibration energy dose-dependent manner. Vibrated RCA also showed decreased vasorelaxation to ACh compared with control arteries. Notably, after addition of SNP (nitric oxide donor), cGMP levels did not differ between vibrated and control arteries, thereby isolating vibration-induced dysfunction to the endothelium alone. This dysfunction occurred in the presence of a morphologically intact endothelium without increased apoptosis. Carotid arteries subjected to 6 h of continuous peri-carotid tissue vibration displayed endothelial dysfunction, suggesting a direct plausible mechanism linking heavy snoring to the development of carotid atherosclerosis.