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阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的严重程度因季节和环境影响而异,例如环境温度

Bastien Lechat¹, Duc Phuc Nguyen², Kelly Sansom^2,3

¹Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute:Sleep Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. bastien.lechat@flinders.edu.au.

Communications medicine

|July 30, 2025

概括

阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 的严重程度因季节性而波动,在温暖的月份,呼吸暂停-呼吸暂停指数 (AHI) 较高. 环境温度显著影响OSA的严重程度,这表明环境因素对管理至关重要.

科学领域:

睡眠医学睡眠医学
环境健康环境健康
肺部病理学肺部病理学

背景情况:

阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 的严重程度在一夜之间表现出显著的变化.
环境因素 (如季节和温度) 对OSA严重性的影响仍未得到充分研究.

研究的目的:

调查季节性变化和环境温度与阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 严重程度之间的关联.

主要方法:

通过使用床下睡眠传感器分析了70,052名患有OSA的参与者的数据 (呼吸暂停-呼吸暂停指数[AHI]≥5次/小时).
固定效应模型被用来评估AHI,一年中的日期和环境温度之间的关系,控制睡眠时间和空气污染.

主要成果:

在夏季/冬季与北半球的春季/秋季相比,AHI的增加约为5%.
在南半球,夏季与春季相比,夏季的AHI高出10-15%.
环境温度升高 (6°C与18°C相比) 与AHI上升6.4%,影响因地理区域而异.

结论:

OSA的严重程度表现出季节性模式,受环境温度和睡眠时间的变化影响.
这些发现强调了在OSA临床试验中报告数据收集周期的重要性.
需要进一步的研究来阐明导致OSA严重程度季节性变化的生理机制.

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