Snoring as an Independent Risk Factor for Hypertension in the Nonobese Population: The Korean Health and Genome Study | Zendy

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Snoring as an Independent Risk Factor for Hypertension in the Nonobese Population: The Korean Health and Genome Study

Author(s) -

JaeWeon Kim,

Yi Huang,

K SHIN,

KiSuck Jung,

Cheung Soo Shin

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.03.007

Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , blood pressure , odds ratio , risk factor , obesity , confounding , incidence (geometry) , population , overweight , environmental health , physics , optics

Although the close relationship between sleep-disordered breathing and hypertension has been strengthened by the accumulated evidence, the issues of controlling for coexisting factors and the lack of definite evidence in presenting a cause-effect relationship still remain. This study aimed to evaluate the independent association between habitual snoring and the 2-year incidence of hypertension in a nonobese population in Korea.

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