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Gender differences in sleep apnea: the role of neck circumference.
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The frequency and severity of sleep apnea in the sleep clinic population is greater in men than women, and factors other than NC, age, and BMI must contribute to these gender differences.About:
This article is published in Chest.The article was published on 2003-05-01. It has received 182 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Polysomnography & Apnea–hypopnea index.read more
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Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.
Alan R. Schwartz,Susheel P. Patil,Alison M. Laffan,Vsevolod Y. Polotsky,Hartmut Schneider,Philip L. Smith +5 more
TL;DR: Examining responses to specific weight loss strategies will provide critical insight into mechanisms linking obesity and sleep apnea, and will help to elucidate the humoral and molecular predictors of weight loss responses.
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Prevalence of undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea among adult surgical patients in an academic medical center
Kevin J. Finkel,Adam C. Searleman,Heidi Tymkew,Christopher Y. Tanaka,Leif Saager,Elika Safer-Zadeh,Michael M. Bottros,Jacqueline A. Selvidge,Eric Jacobsohn,Debra D. Pulley,Stephen P. Duntley,Colleen M. Becker,Michael S. Avidan +12 more
TL;DR: Implementing universal screening for OSA is feasible and can identify undiagnosed OSA in many surgical patients, and is prevalent in adult surgical patients.
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Updates on Definition, Consequences, and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
TL;DR: This review focuses on updates in the areas of terminology and testing, complications of untreated OSA, perioperative considerations, treatment options, and new developments in this field.
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Gender differences in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a clinical study of 1166 patients
Esther Quintana-Gallego,Carmen Carmona-Bernal,Francisco Capote,Angeles Sanchez-Armengol,Georgina Botebol-Benhamou,Juan Polo-Padillo,José Castillo-Gómez +6 more
TL;DR: It is likely that women with OSA may be underdiagnosed due to circumstances related to the family lifestyle and sociocultural factors in addition to different OSA clinical expression.
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Contribution of male sex, age, and obesity to mechanical instability of the upper airway during sleep
Jason P. Kirkness,Alan R. Schwartz,Hartmut Schneider,Naresh M. Punjabi,Joseph J. Maly,Alison M. Laffan,Brian M. McGinley,Thomas H. Magnuson,Michael Schweitzer,Philip L. Smith,Susheel P. Patil +10 more
TL;DR: Upper airway mechanics are differentially controlled by sex, obesity, and age, and partly mediate the relationship between these sleep apnea risk factors and obstructiveSleep apnea susceptibility.
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The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults
TL;DR: The prevalence of undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing is high among men and is much higher than previously suspected among women, and is associated with daytime hypersomnolence.
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A Manual of Standardized Terminology, Techniques and Scoring System for Sleep Stages of Human Subjects.
TL;DR: Techniques of recording, scoring, and doubtful records are carefully considered, and Recommendations for abbreviations, types of pictorial representation, order of polygraphic tracings are suggested.
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Prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in women: effects of gender.
Edward O. Bixler,Alexandros N. Vgontzas,Hung Mo Lin,Thomas R. Ten Have,Jennifer Rein,Antonio Vela-Bueno,Anthony Kales +6 more
TL;DR: The data combined indicate that menopause is a significant risk factor for sleep apnea in women and that hormone replacement appears to be associated with reduced risk.
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Upper airway and soft tissue anatomy in normal subjects and patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Significance of the lateral pharyngeal walls.
TL;DR: The major findings of this investigation in the 68 subjects were that minimum airway area was significantly smaller in apneic compared with normal subjects and occurred in the retropalatal region, and thickness of the lateral pharyngeal muscular walls rather than enlargement of the parapharyngeAL fat pads was the predominant anatomic factor causing airway narrowing in Apneic subjects.