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The Effects of Age, Sex, Ethnicity, and Sleep-Disordered Breathing on Sleep Architecture

Susan Redline, H. Lester Kirchner, Stuart F. Quan, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Vishesh K. Kapur, Anne B. Newman

Archives of Internal Medicine · 2004 · 718 citations · 41 references

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Abstract

Sleep architecture varies with sex, age, ethnicity, and SDB. Individual assessment of the effect of SDB on sleep quality needs to account for other host characteristics. Men, but not women, show evidence of poorer sleep with aging, suggesting important sex differences in sleep physiology.

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