This is going to change the way doctors saw the problem earlier. Stroke risk is high from sleep apnea among men, women
Male and female both face almost similar risk of stroke due to sleep apnea, a new study has found. The study was presented by scientists during the American Thoracic Society’s annual meeting.
Researchers who are associated with top institutes across the world have concluded that risk of stroke from sleep apnea was similar for both men and women.
Suzanne Bertisch, MD of Harvard Medical School says, “Overall, we have found evidence of an increasing likelihood of stroke in women and not just the men…We are showing that women who reach the threshold for sleep apnea are at risk for cardiovascular disease”.
She went on to add that the 5-year probability of having a stroke with the least severe obstructive sleep apnea index was 0.4% for women and 0.6% for men. She went on to add that after a decade the likelihood of stroke for a person who is in lowest quartile of the sleep apnea index was 0.9% for women and 1% for men. This means that the difference was minimal. She went on to add that probability of suffering from stroke in the highest quartile of the apnea index was 2.3% in women and 3.1% in men.
While detailing the mode of the study Suzanne Bertisch says, “When we adjusted for other variables, we found that when compared with the lowest quartiles in both women and men, [there was] evidence of the impact on stroke in people with the highest categories of obstructive sleep apnea index scores”,” she said.
Others too seemed to agree with the findings of the study. David Rapoport who moderated the press conference said, “There are lots of studies that have shown that sleep apnea is bad for your risk of stroke. But the majority of strokes happen in men, so it as difficult to show the difference between men and women. One conclusion was that women were protected but what this study adds is that there was no protection, just statistical difficulty proving it until this analysis that they have done”. Rapoport is medical director of the sleep disorder unit at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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