ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2024
Gender differences in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a pilot study.
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- Clinical validation of a multisensor wearable device (SOUNDI) for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Cognitive impairment in comorbid MDD and OSA: the dual effects of intermittent hypoxia and sleep fragmentation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Subclinical Ischemic Heart Disease Risk in Obese Adults: Findings from an International Cross-Sectional Study.Juntendo medical journal · 2026Article
- National trends in mortality associated with obstructive sleep apnea among adults with diabetes mellitus in the United States, 1999-2020.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in women: gender in sleep respiratory medicine is a first step towards personalized medicine.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Review
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- Polysomnographic Analysis in Snoring Patients.Cureus · 2025Article
- Are the serum iron parameters related to the severity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome?Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Article
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Coexistence: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Complications.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Review
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Abstract
purposeOSAS is a syndrome that often presents clinically differently between men and women. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical presentation, nocturnal home sleep cardiorespiratory monitoring and therapeutic adherence to CPAP in both sexes to identify the most frequent patterns.
methodsData from the first visit, the nocturnal home sleep cardiorespiratory monitoring and follow-up visit of 74 OSA patients were collected. Exclusion criteria included other respiratory and/or neuromuscular diseases (including Obesity hypoventilation syndrome) and other non-respiratory sleep disorders.
resultsMen were older and had a higher supine AHI and ODI compared to women. In addition, BMI and age correlated positively with AHI in males. Women had a higher hypopneas frequency and better therapeutic adherence to CPAP.
conclusionsMen were associated with a higher AHI when sleeping in the supine position and this may be useful to look for new therapeutic options in combination with or as an alternative to CPAP. BMI correlated positively with AHI in men and this should be considered to stimulate weight loss as the main treatment to reduce the number of apneas/hypopneas, as men also had less therapeutic adherence to CPAP in our study. Females presented a significantly higher frequency of hypopneas than men, as well as a lower number of desaturation events per hour (ODI): these differences in the nocturnal home sleep cardiorespiratory monitoring could reflect different pathophysiological mechanisms of OSAS onset between the two sexes, which should be investigated in future scientific studies.
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