Do Patients with the Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome Drink More Alcohol? | Zendy

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Do Patients with the Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome Drink More Alcohol?

Author(s) -

Ryan J. Jalleh,

Michael Fitzpatrick,

R Mathur,

N J Douglas

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.1093/sleep/15.4.319

Subject(s) - medicine , hypopnea , sleep apnea , sleep (system call) , obstructive sleep apnea , apnea , polysomnography , anesthesia , psychiatry , computer science , operating system

As alcohol ingestion may worsen the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome, we have investigated the alcohol consumption of patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome in comparison to control subjects to determine whether patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome drink excessively. A lifetime alcohol history was taken from each. There was no significant difference between the 50 patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome and 95 age-matched controls in either the lifetime (patients 27, SEM 5 x 10(3); controls 26, SEM 4 x 10(3) units) or current (12, SEM 2; 12, SEM 2 units per week) alcohol consumption. There was no evidence that alcohol consumption was related to the development of arterial carbon dioxide retention or peripheral edema in such individuals.

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