"Many of these patients seek treatment because the noise of their snoring or the pain in their chests is frequently waking them up," says Chen Ning-hung. Cheng points out that snoring is the result of a soft jaw or excessive looseness of the uvula system, so that when patients lie down their breathing channels are narrowed.
不只是擾人清夢「病人多為睡眠時很吵、或胸悶不舒服醒來而求診，」長庚醫院睡眠障礙中心主任陳濘宏指出，打鼾是因軟顎或懸壅垂等組織過於鬆弛，平躺睡眠時造成呼吸道狹窄引起的。