Back to Search
Start Over
Gender difference in sleep profile of severely obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
- Source :
- Respiratory Medicine. 99(1):91-96
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2005.
-
Abstract
- Objectives: Few papers addressed the gender difference in the polisomnographic features of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In this paper we investigated the sleep architecture and the nocturnal respiratory pattern in a group of severely obese women with OSA compared with a group of men with OSA matched by age and weight.Design: A cross-sectional study.Setting: Primary-care setting.Subjects, main outcome measures: Anthropometric parameters, respiratory function data and a full night polisomnography were evaluated in a group of 45 obese subjects, 20 females and 25 males, with a previous diagnosis of OSA.Results: The group of the severely obese women with OSA presented greater disturbances of the sleep architecture than the group of the men does (wake time after sleep onset 92.6±52.4 vs 58.2±45.2min, P
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Cross-sectional study
Partial Pressure
Polysomnography
Posture
Obese
OSA
Medicine
Gender difference
Humans
Respiratory function
Obesity
Sex Characteristics
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
Anthropometry
business.industry
Sleep apnea
Carbon Dioxide
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Sleep in non-human animals
respiratory tract diseases
Obstructive sleep apnea
Oxygen
Cross-Sectional Studies
Physical therapy
Female
Sleep onset
business
Sleep
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09546111
- Volume :
- 99
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Respiratory Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5b32a961852b458a414c04bb1fa9897e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2004.05.014