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CLINICAL CHALLENGES IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY SECTION EDITOR: KAREN H. CALHOUN, MD; ASSISTANT SECTION EDITOR: RONALD B. KUPPERSMITH, MD Long-term Health Consequences of Mild to Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Regina Paloyan Walker, MD Hypothesis: Mild to moderate ob- tient. Also, with the advent of por- structive sleep apnea (OSA) does not table home studies, the number of cause significant long-term adverse patients who undergo objective sleep health consequences. testing in this country has risen dra- matically. Because of all these ad- BACKGROUND vances in sleep medicine in the past 10 years, and the resultant media ex- Obstructive sleep apnea is a com- posure, the overall public aware- mon disorder among middle-aged ness of SDB has increased. As with persons in the United States. Young any disease process for which large et al reported that the prevalence of numbers of individuals are being OSA associated with hypersomno- screened, many patients are now lence was 2% in women and 4% in being recognized to have less se- Regina Paloyan Walker, MD men aged 30 to 60 years. It is rea- vere forms of the disease. The ques- sonably well established that many tion that arises is whether the less patients with OSA, now
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery – American Medical Association
Published: Nov 1, 2001
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