Article: Sleep Apnea Symptoms Differ in Women vs. Men.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: Sleep apnea a stand-alone mortality risk.
Women's Health Weekly;  August 21, 2008 ;     485 words ......and obstructive sleep apnea in a population...comprised men and women from the Western...of men and 9% of women in the middle-age...However because sleep apnea is strongly associated...Legislation, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Otolaryngology...was prepared by Women's ...

Article: Sleep apnea may increase risk for diabetes in women with PCOS.
Women's Health Weekly;  July 8, 2004 ;     265 words ......BMI) and risk for sleep apnea in women with PCOS. They screened...found that 75% of the women were at high risk for sleep apnea. Additionally, Tasali...findings indicate that women with PCOS who suffer from sleep apnea should be closely monitored...

Article: SLEEP APNEA ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY-INDUCED DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 23, 2007 ;     481 words ......pregnancies associated with sleep apnea, gestational diabetes (women who developed diabetes...deliveries, 452 had sleep apnea. Of the 167,227 women who had gestational...want to follow pregnant women whose sleep apnea is well-controlled to...

Article: More Suffer From Sleep Apnea Than Previously Thought
NPR Morning Edition;  April 29, 1993 ;     603 words ......the high number of women in her study with sleep apnea. Researchers believed...ten times as often as women, but in Young's group...that mild cases of sleep apnea are also much more...as four percent of women and nine percent of...

Article: Evaluate patients with PCOS for sleep apnea: women with the treatable breathing disorder had higher fasting insulin levels than those without it.(Metabolic Disorders)(polycystic ovary syndrome)
Family Practice News;  March 15, 2006 ;     400 words ......FRANCISCO -- A high risk for sleep apnea was common in women with polycystic ovary...were twice those of women with lower risk for sleep apnea. This finding suggests...normal in 19 women. In 22 women at high sleep apnea risk, average fasting...

Article: Sleep apnea may worsen insulin resistance in women with PCOS.(Endocrinology)(polycystic ovary syndrome)
Internal Medicine News;  June 1, 2006 ;     409 words ......FRANCISCO -- A high risk for sleep apnea was common in women with polycystic ovary...were twice as high in women at high risk for sleep apnea, compared with those...normal in 19 women. In 22 women at high sleep apnea risk, average fasting...

Article: Sleep apnea associated with insulin resistance in PCOS.(polycystic ovary syndrome)
Clinical Psychiatry News;  August 1, 2006 ;     381 words ......FRANCISCO -- A high risk for sleep apnea was common in women with polycystic ovary...were twice as high in women at high risk for sleep apnea, compared with those...normal in 19 women. In 22 women at high sleep apnea risk, average fasting...

Article: Troubled Sleep; Apnea Episodes Are Common But Most People Are Unaware
The Washington Post;  May 4, 1993 ;     563 words ......t know they had sleep apnea. The study found that 4 percent of the women and 9 percent of...Nine percent of women and 24 percent of...five times an hour.Sleep apnea is more common among...breathing.Two percent of women and 4 percent of men were judged to have sleep ...

Article: SLEEP APNEA IS TREATABLE SURGICALLY, NON-SURGICALLY
Post-Tribune (IN);  March 7, 1995 ;     466 words ......dangerous condition called sleep apnea. Sleep apnea, a condition in which a...up briefly. A person with sleep apnea may have as many as 1,000...more so among men than women and increasingly with age...sleep may be symptoms of sleep apnea and may require ...

Article: Obese Women With PCOS Face Higher Sleep Apnea Risk.
OB GYN News;  June 15, 2000 ;     320 words ......Conference. Obstructive sleep apnea it women with polycystic ovary...control group. All the women were evaluated for sleep apnea using polysomnography...5% of the control women were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, a statistically...

Article: Research links asthma to increased risk for sleep apnea in young women.(news)
Sleep Review;  September 1, 2006 ;     404 words ......of obstructive sleep apnea--a condition...undetected in women--compared with...of young adult women with asthma experienced...of obstructive sleep apnea. These findings...more likely than women to get obstructive sleep apnea, but we've shown...

Article: Reports summarize obstructive sleep apnea research from D.J. Levendowski and co-authors.(Report)
Women's Health Weekly;  November 27, 2008 ;     458 words ......probable obstructive sleep apnea/sleep disordered...175 men and 156 women, and sleep study...having at least mild sleep apnea, over 33% of the men and 6% of the women surveyed were predicted...moderate or severe sleep apnea. In a subgroup...Craniofacial, ...

Article: Disorder Linked To Obesity In Premenopausal Women.(sleep apnea in women is associated with obesity and menopause)
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  April 7, 2001 ;     404 words ......multicenter study has found that sleep apnea in women is associated with obesity...significant risk factor for sleep apnea in women and that hormone replacement...women and postmenopausal women on HRT, sleep apnea was associated exclusively...

Article: Study shows that people with sleep apnea have a high risk of death.
Women's Health Weekly;  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......this risk increases when sleep apnea is untreated (see also...people who have severe sleep apnea, which involves frequent...people who do not have sleep apnea. This risk is represented...mortality related to severe sleep apnea rose to 4.3. We found that both men and ...