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Article: Disorder Linked To Obesity In Premenopausal Women.(sleep apnea in women is associated with obesity and menopause)
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- April 7, 2001
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2001 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Susan Hasty, staff medical writer - A multicenter study has found that sleep apnea in women is associated with obesity and menopause, and that postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy have a reduced risk for sleep disordered breathing.
E.O. Bixler and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and in Madrid, Spain, evaluated a random sample of 16,583 men (4,364) and women (12,219), age 20 to 100 years, for the prevalence of sleep apnea. In a second phase of the study, 1,000 women and 741 men were evaluated overnight in a sleep laboratory.
"The results of our study ...