Snoring and Blood Pressure in Third‐Trimester Normotensive Pregnant Women

PURPOSE To examine the association between snoring, sleep quality, quantity, and blood pressure in third-trimester normotensive pregnant women. DESIGN This study was a cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts of healthy pregnant women recruited from a prenatal clinic in a medical center in Northern Taiwan. METHODS A total of 322 women reported sociodemographic and health characteristics in a structured interview and wore a wrist actigraph on their nondominant wrist for 7 consecutive days to assess objective sleep patterns. The women's resting blood pressures were measured while seated in the clinic by trained personnel using an electronic sphygmomanometer. FINDINGS One hundred thirty-three (41.3%) women reported snoring. Ninety-three women (28.9%) had