阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的内型在老年创伤暴露的退伍军人中是相似的,有和没有被诊断为PTSD

Elliot J Brooker1, Shane A Landry2, Dwayne Mann3

  • 1School of Psychological Sciences, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.

Sleep medicine
|February 8, 2024
PubMed
概括

阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 在患有创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 的退伍军人中很常见. 这项研究没有发现PTSD和没有PTSD的退伍军人之间OSA内型的显著差异,这表明PTSD不会直接改变这些睡眠呼吸暂停机制.

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