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Women and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

While both men and women suffer from Obstructive Sleep Apnea, men are diagnosed eight times more often than women and are twice as likely to have sleep apnea, according to sleepfoundation.org. The key differentiators in how sleep apnea presents in women versus men are best defined by their unique symptoms and even by how sleep apnea is defined. Research from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that OSA symptoms in women are often not present at all or are very subtle.

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