Elevated risk of motor vehicle accident for male drivers with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in the tokyo metropolitan area

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-16

  Komada, Yoko ^a,b   Nishida, Yasushi ^c   Namba, Kazuyoshi ^b   Abe, Takashi ^a,b   Tsuiki, Satoru ^a,b   Inoue, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor vehicle accident; Nasal CPAP treatment; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Prevalence; Subjective sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVER; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TOKYO;

EID: 70449982526     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.219.11     Document Type: Article

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