Gender-specific impacts of apnea, age, and BMI on parasympathetic nerve dysfunction during sleep in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Gender-specific impacts of apnea, age, and BMI on parasympathetic nerve dysfunction during sleep in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

BACKGROUND: The gender-specific influences of various confounding factors, including apnea, age, BMI, and cigarette consumption, on the function of the parasympathetic nerve system (PNS) during sleep in OSA patients has never been investigated. METHODS: One hundred ninety-seven males and 63 females...

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Main Authors: Kazuhiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Inoue, Noboru Ohki, Natsumi Satoya, Fukumi Inoue, Yoshiko Maeda, Haruki Sekiguchi, Mayumi Suzuki, Takao Tsuji, Kazutetsu Aoshiba, Atsushi Nagai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3965452?pdf=render

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