Racial variations in maxillomandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Douglas P Nanu, Tanner J Diemer, Shaun A Nguyen, Timothy Tremont, Ted A Meyer, Mohamed Abdelwahab · 2024
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Description
Douglas Nanu and co-authors published this review in 2024. It compares jaw surgery outcomes for sleep apnea across racial groups. The operation moves both jaws forward to open the airway. Twenty studies with 469 patients fed the pooled analysis. Most patients were Caucasian or Asian; only eight were Latino. Sleep study scores, airway measures, and sleepiness ratings were compared before and after surgery.
All groups improved. Asian patients started with worse apnea and gained the most ground on breathing and sleepiness scores. Their oxygen lows also rose the most. Latino results rested on very thin data. The authors caution that anatomy and disease severity differ across groups, shaping what surgery can do. They call for studies that enroll patients in proportion to who actually has the disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Douglas P Nanu, Tanner J Diemer, Shaun A Nguyen, Timothy Tremont, Ted A Meyer, Mohamed Abdelwahab |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |