Snoring, short bedtime influence kids' mental skills

Children with enlarged tonsils or who snore a lot and those who spend less time in bed are lower on the graph of certain mental tests.

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Snoring could be a sign of sleep apnea, in where airways could experience hindrance during sleep thus causing short but recurrent breathing blockages.

The research is based on observing the sleeping patters for six successive days of 56 children, between 6 to 12 years of age. And on the seventh day, the children filled in a number of normal cognitive tests.

The tests concluded that children who spent more than 550 minutes in bed and who did not snore scored considerably higher on tests of vocabulary and similarity-matching than those who snored and spend less time in bed.

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