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Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea has historically been considered a male disease. Although most studies have shown male predominance, obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent in women, increasing with age and varying with physiologic status among other factors. Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8461585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34602886 |
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author | Geer, Jacqueline H. Hilbert, Janet |
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description | Obstructive sleep apnea has historically been considered a male disease. Although most studies have shown male predominance, obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent in women, increasing with age and varying with physiologic status among other factors. Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with significant symptoms and health consequences in women yet remains underdiagnosed in women in part due to differences in presenting symptoms, differences in polysomnographic findings, and/or sociocultural factors. This review will discuss the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, focusing on sex and gender differences. |
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spelling | pubmed-84615852021-09-30 Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Geer, Jacqueline H. Hilbert, Janet Yale J Biol Med Review Obstructive sleep apnea has historically been considered a male disease. Although most studies have shown male predominance, obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent in women, increasing with age and varying with physiologic status among other factors. Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with significant symptoms and health consequences in women yet remains underdiagnosed in women in part due to differences in presenting symptoms, differences in polysomnographic findings, and/or sociocultural factors. This review will discuss the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, focusing on sex and gender differences. YJBM 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8461585/ /pubmed/34602886 Text en Copyright ©2021, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Review Geer, Jacqueline H. Hilbert, Janet Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title | Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title_full | Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title_fullStr | Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title_short | Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
title_sort | gender issues in obstructive sleep apnea |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8461585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34602886 |
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