George H. W. Bush, former U.S. president, developed new atrial fibrillation and was diagnosed in 1991 with hyperthyroidism due to the disease and treated with radioactive iodine. The presidents wife, Barbara Bush, also developed the disease around the same time, which, in her case, produced severe infiltrative exophthalmos. Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor
Gail Devers, American sprinter: A doctor considered amputating her feet after she developed blistering and swelling following radiation treatment for Graves disease, but she went on to recover and win Olympic medals. Missy Elliott, American hip-hop artist
Marty Feldman, British comedy writer, comedian and actor
Sia, Australian singer and songwriter
Sammy Gravano, Italian-American former underboss of the Gambino crime family. Jim Hamilton, Scottish rugby player, discovered he had Graves disease shortly after retiring from the sport in 2017. Heino, German folk singer, whose dark sunglasses (worn to hide his symptoms) became part of his trademark look
Herbert Howells, British composer; the first person to be treated with radium injections
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist. Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian Communist and wife of Vladimir Lenin
Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. Barbara Leigh, an American former actress and fashion model, now spokeswoman for the National Graves Disease Foundation
Keiko Masuda, Japanese singer and one-half of the duo Pink Lady. Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress
Lord Monckton, former UKIP and Conservative politician and noted climate change skeptic. Sophia Parnok, Russian poet
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British ambassador to the United States during World War I, died suddenly of the disease in 1918.
While the procedure was initially approved for the insertion of three "pillars" into the soft palate, it was found that there was a significant dosage response to more pillars, with appropriate candidates. As a result of this outpatient operation, which typically lasts no more than 30 minutes, the soft palate is more rigid, possibly reducing instances of sleep apnea and snoring. This procedure addresses one of the most common causes of snoring and sleep apnea — vibration or collapse of the soft palate (the soft part of the roof of the mouth). If there are other factors contributing to snoring or sleep apnea, such as conditions of the nasal airway or an enlarged tongue, it will likely need to be combined with other treatments to be more effective. Alternative medicine
Among the natural remedies are exercises to increase the muscle tone of the upper airway, and one medical practitioner noting anecdotally that professional singers seldom snore, but there have been no medical studies to fully link the two. Epidemiology
Statistics on snoring are often contradictory, but at least 30% of adults and perhaps as many as 50% of people in some demographics snore.