Tweens who snore are more likely to have behaviour problems

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Tweens who frequently snore are more likely to have behavioural problems, according to international researchers. The team say previous research has linked snoring to both behaviour and learning problems in younger children, but with less known about what happens to this link later in childhood they analysed data from a teen brain development study comparing snoring frequency with behaviour and brain function. In a group of nearly 12,000 children of an average age of 10 at year 1 dropping to 4668 children after five years of follow-up, the researchers say frequent snoring was associated with behaviour problems, but not brain function/learning problems. They say these behavioural problems did not increase over time and snoring in general decreased among the group throughout the study. The researchers say parents can take this information into account when deciding if their tween's snoring needs treatment.