Air pollution levels can have a significant impact on sleep problems for troubled snoozers, a report has discovered.The Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital found sleep apnoea cases increase during the warmer periods of the year.Cases rose as levels of air pollution went up in the summer, although the precise link is not clear."These new data suggest that reduction in air pollution exposure might decrease the severity of such sleep disruptions," explained study co-author Antonella Zanobetti.The research involved more than 3,000 people and looked at age, gender, and whether the subject smoked.Researchers at the department of psychiatry at Penn State University recently discovered sleep disordered breathing increases among children between June and September.
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