Gender differences in Saudi patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-329

  Alotair, Hadil ^a   BaHammam, Ahmed ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Gender; Obstructive sleep apnea; Polysomnography; Woman

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANKLE SWELLING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP PATTERN; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; SWELLING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; ARABS; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 53549117726     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-008-0184-8     Document Type: Article

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