Age-and gender-related characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea

IE Gabbay, P Lavie - Sleep and Breathing, 2012 - Springer
… of different ages with a laboratory diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using
demographic, subjective complaints and medical history and to determine the best fitting apnea–…

Effects of age on sleep apnea in men: I. Prevalence and severity

EO Bixler, AN Vgontzas, T Ten Have… - American journal of …, 1998 - atsjournals.org
age affects the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The purpose of this study was to
evaluate the effects of age on the prevalence and severity of sleep apnea … a wide age range. …

Mortality in sleep apnea patients: a multivariate analysis of risk factors

P Lavie, P Herer, R Peled, I Berger, N Yoffe, J Zomer… - Sleep, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… In the present study we determined the age-specific mortality rates ofSAS patients … deceased
patients were treated because of their sleep apnea. Two patients were treated by CPAP (…

Sleep apnea in the elderly: a specific entity?

SH Launois, JL Pépin, P Lévy - Sleep medicine reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
… the prevalence of sleep apnea and in particular of central sleep apnea is dramatically …
responsible for the disorder in older patients compared with middle-aged adults but, rather, an …

Comparison of cognitive performance among different age groups in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

M Alchanatis, N Zias, N Deligiorgis, I Liappas… - Sleep and …, 2008 - Springer
sleep apnea syndrome on the cognitive performance of young and middle-aged patients. …
that cognitive deterioration of untreated sleep apnea patients is age dependent, and several …

Severity of individual obstruction events increases with age in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

T Leppänen, J Töyräs, E Mervaala, T Penzel, A Kulkas - Sleep medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Age is a risk factor of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It has been shown that OSA
progresses over time, although conflicting results have been reported. However, the effect …

Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

M Partinen, T Telakivi - Sleep, 1992 - academic.oup.com
… Upper airway obstruction with snoring or sleep apnea are commonly seen in children of all
ages. Snoring is very common among infants and children with Pierre Robin syndrome and …

Aging effect on sleepiness and apneas severity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a meta-analysis study

G Iannella, C Vicini, A Colizza, G Meccariello… - European Archives of …, 2019 - Springer
… 98 years of age, sleep apnea was found to be most frequent in subjects aged 60 years or …
The main clinical characteristic of the patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is the …

Age-group-specific associations between the severity of obstructive sleep apnea and relevant risk factors in male and female patients

X Deng, W Gu, Y Li, M Liu, Y Li, X Gao - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… , age, and obesity; and the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in large-scale population,
in the present study, we recruited a total of 2,353 OSA patients (… tendencies between age, …

Respiratory effort during obstructive sleep apnea: role of age and sleep state

J Krieger, E Sforza, A Boudewijns, M Zamagni… - Chest, 1997 - Elsevier
apneas, which may have occurred in the same patient, were not included. REM sleep apneas
were analyzed only when at least 10 apneas … of apneas analyzed in REM sleep ranged …