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Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is the most common and most often it occurs after the age of 30. Maori, Polynesians and Asians are more likely to develop it, as are people who are overweight and people who have a family history.
Hypertension
Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. When your heart beats, it pumps blood around your body. As the blood moves, it pushes against the sides of blood vessels (arteries). Over time fatty material and other substances circulating in your blood can build up on the inner walls of your arteries causing them to narrow. The more blood your heart pumps and the narrower your arteries, the higher your blood pressure.
Obesity
Obesity is a complex disorder involving too much body fat. Obesity develops over time, often due to consuming more calories (particularly those in fatty and sugary foods) than you burn through exercise and normal daily activities. Your body stores these extra calories as fat. Factors that might affect your weight include your genetic makeup, some health conditions, overeating, eating high-fat or high sugar foods, and not being physically active.
Snoring
Snoring is a sleep disorder. It may bother the snorer and usually disturbs the sleep of anyone else in the same room. Occasionally someone with profound or particularly noisy snoring disturbs the sleep of others in different rooms attempting to sleep themselves.