Dr. Colin Sullivan is a prominent sleep expert. He invented the continuous positive airway pressure machine, better known as the CPAP, which helps the millions of patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (or OSA) get a decent night's sleep. So when Sullivan shared his views about snoring with Salon during an interview last year, it was worthy of attention.
Many people may still regard snoring as a harmless element of the sleeping process — if frequently exasperating to spouses, partners and roommates — a distinctive buzzing, rattling sound often regarded cute in old people, babies and dogs while depicted with a string of comical Z's by cartoonists.
