The effect of gender on clinical characteristics and diagnostic process of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Yildiz Ucar, Caner Incekas, Keziban Ucar Karabulut, Meltem Karacan Golen · 2026
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Yildiz Ucar, Caner Incekas, Keziban Ucar Karabulut, and Meltem Karacan Golen compare in 2026 how obstructive sleep apnea looks in men and women. They draw on 230 patients diagnosed by overnight sleep studies between 2020 and 2026. The condition, where the airway keeps closing during sleep, was long treated as a mostly male problem. In this group, 68.3 percent were men and 31.7 percent were women.
Women were older at diagnosis and had a higher body mass index. Their average and lowest oxygen levels during sleep were worse, and they showed higher pressure in the lung artery and a weaker heart pumping score. Blood inflammation scores built from white cell types ran higher in men. The contrast suggests women's disease is being caught later, after more harm, and that doctors should not wait for the classic male picture before testing women.
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| CREATOR | Yildiz Ucar, Caner Incekas, Keziban Ucar Karabulut, Meltem Karacan Golen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41541 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |