Researchers led by Dr. Inkyung Baik found that individuals who snored regularly were more likely to develop bronchitis than those who did not.
Individuals who snored six five times per week or less were 25 percent more likely to develop the ailment compared with those who never snored, the study suggests.
Individuals who snored six to seven times per week were 68 percent more likely to develop bronchitis, it said, adding the link was strongest among those who had never smoked and who worked at home, Science Daily reported.
"The mechanisms underlying the association between snoring and chronic bronchitis are largely unknown," Baik writes in the Archive of Internal Medicine. "It has been suggested that structural or functional changes in the airway due to inflammation may cause snoring."
