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SUBMITTER: Wimms A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5028797 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wimms Alison A Woehrle Holger H Ketheeswaran Sahisha S Ramanan Dinesh D Armitstead Jeffery J
BioMed research international 20160906
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has traditionally been seen as a male disease. However, the importance of OSA in women is increasingly being recognized, along with a number of significant gender-related differences in the symptoms, diagnosis, consequences, and treatment of OSA. Women tend to have less severe OSA than males, with a lower apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and shorter apneas and hypopneas. Episodes of upper airway resistance that do not meet the criteria for apneas are more common in women. ...[more]