Morbidity, Mortality and Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Community Dwelling Elderly

摘要: A population-based probability sample of elderly individuals (n = 426), who were originally studied between 1981 and 1986 (mean age at initial study was 72.5 years), followed for mortality. Those with > or 30 respiratory disturbances per hour sleep had significantly shorter survival (p 0.0034), but the disturbance index (RDI) not an independent predictor death. When Cox proportional hazards analysis done, only (the strongest predictor), cardiovascular disease pulmonary predictors It may be that factors are secondary to associated sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), such as disease, predispose these