Men 20-29 most at risk for sleep apnea

by GLOBES Correspondent
'According to a new study, men in their 20s are most at risk for sleep apnea, and need to be screened the most. The study, carried out by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, showed that men aged 20 to 29 with severe sleep apnea have 10 times the risk of dying from heart related ailments than their non-sleep apnea peers in the general population, and a much higher risk than older men with sleep apnea.

The Technion study, which appears in the March 2005 European Respiratory Journal, was based on the largest population of sleep apnea patients (nearly 15,000 men) ever to be studied. All were recorded in the Technion sleep clinics in Israel from 1991 through 2000. The researchers compared the risk of dying for men with severe sleep apnea -- having at least 50 breathing stops per hour -- with the general population.'
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