Sleep complaints: snoring and daytime sleepiness in pregnant and pre-eclamptic women.

Background And Purpose: To examine whether snoring and sleepiness are linked in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia.

Patients And Methods: We recruited 167 healthy and 82 pre-eclamptic women in the third trimester of pregnancy and 160 non-pregnant women. Subjects and their partners completed a sleep questionnaire.

The upper airway in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia.

Snoring is common in pregnancy, and snoring pregnant women have increased rates of pre-eclampsia. Patients with pre-eclampsia show upper airway narrowing during sleep. The present study aimed to compare upper airway dimensions in pregnant and nonpregnant women and in patients with pre-eclampsia.