TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Sleep-disordered breathing in alcoholics: association with age
JO  - Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
A1  - Aldrich, M. S.
A1  - Shipley, J. E.
A1  - Tandon, R.
A1  - Kroll, P. D.
A1  - Brower, K. J.
SP  - 1179
EP  - 1183
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
N2  - Sleep apnea and related disorders are not uncommon in abstinent alcoholics. We assessed the relationship between age and the presence and severity of sleep-disordered breathing in alcoholism by performing one night of polysomnography on 75 abstinent alcoholic subjects undergoing treatment for alcoholism. Sleep-disordered breathing (defined as 10 or more apneas plus hypopneas/hr of sleep) was present in 17% of 66 men aged 22-76 and in 0 of 9 women aged 28-63 years. Three percent of men under age 40 years had sleep-disordered breathing compared with 25% of men between ages 40-59 and 75% of those above age 60. Although alcoholics with sleep-disordered breathing had a higher body mass index than those without, the increased frequency over age 40 was statistically significant after controlling for the effects of body mass index. Sleep in subjects with sleep-disordered breathing was significantly more disturbed than in subjects without sleep-disordered breathing. Our findings suggest that sleep-disordered breathing in older male alcoholics is more prevalent than has been reported in most studies of normal men and that the increase in sleep-disordered breathing that occurs with age in alcoholics is greater than the age-related increase in sleep-disordered breathing that occurs in healthy elderly men. Furthermore, sleep-disordered breathing is a significant contributor to sleep disturbance in a substantial proportion of male alcoholics above the age of 40 years.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-6008
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -