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Women Differ From Men In Expression of Sleep-Disordered Breathing.(Brief Article)
2001 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women have lower incidence of sleep apnea than men due to their physical make-up. A recent study found that even though women had higher body mass indexes and smaller throat size than men, they had less severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
The gender differences in the expression of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) were found to be due in large part to upper airway tissue characteristics rather than control of airway muscles. Compared with men, women have greater total body fat and are more obese, however, despite similar clinical presentation of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness, women had milder OSA.
"We have known for some time that women have far less apnea during sleep than men," said study author Vahid Mohsenin, MD, associate professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and associate fellow at The John B. Pierce Laboratory. "But the expression of SDB in this study ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women Differ From Men In Expression of Sleep-Disordered...