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Influence of Gender and Age on Upper-Airway Length During Development

OBJECTIVE: Obstructive sleep apnea has a strong male predominance in adults but not in children. The collapsible portion of the upper airway is longer in adult men than in women (a property that may increase vulnerability to collapse during sleep). We sought to test the hypothesis that in prepuberta...

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Hauptverfasser: Ronen, Ohad, Malhotra, Atul, Pillar, Giora
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2007
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2278168/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17908723
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-3433
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