Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity And Daytime Functional Impairments Confounded By Short Sleep Duration

A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that daytime functional impairments in older men with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are largely explained by total sleep time rather than OSA severity. A modest link between OSA severity and daytime sleepiness, measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, was no longer statistically significant after controlling for total sleep time.

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Filed under: Men's health on February 8th, 2009