Accumulating Comorbidities May Promote Increasing Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Aging in Males but Not in Females

Accumulating Comorbidities May Promote Increasing Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Aging in Males but Not in Females

Evidence suggests an increasing apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) with aging. However, the effect of aging on sleep-related metrics, especially AHI, has been less frequently investigated within different gender-specific subpopulations by taking prominent confounding factors, e.g., obstructive sleep apnea (...

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Main Authors: Christopher Seifen, Johannes Pordzik, Katharina Bahr, Lisa Große-Brüggemann, Katharina Ludwig, Berit Hackenberg, Christoph Matthias, Perikles Simon, Haralampos Gouveris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Personalized Medicine
Subjects:
obstructive sleep apnea
apnea–hypopnea index
apnea index
hypopnea index
age
obstructive sleep apnea and age
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/13/1/79

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