Originalartikel | erschienen - EPub | peer reviewed | Open Access
Do brachycephaly and nose size predict the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)? A sample-based geometric morphometric analysis of craniofacial variation in relation to OSA syndrome and the role of confounding factors.
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
2023 / June
;
32(3):
e13801 -
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36579627[PubMed] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsr.13801
Authors
Daboul A*1, Krüger M1, Ivanonvka T, Obst A1, Ewert R2, Stubbe B2, Fietze I, Penzel T, Hosten N3, Biffar R1, Cardini A
Affiliations
Abstract
Obstructive sleep apnea is a common disorder that leads to sleep fragmentation and is potentially bidirectionally related to a variety of comorbidities, including an increased risk of heart failure and stroke. It is often considered a consequence of anatomical abnormalities, especially in the head and neck, but its pathophysiology is likely to be multifactorial in origin. With geometric morphometrics, and a large sample of adults from the Study for Health in Pomerania, we explore the association of craniofacial morphology to the apnea-hypopnea index used as an estimate of obstructive sleep apnea severity. We show that craniofacial size and asymmetry, an aspect of morphological variation seldom analysed in obstructive sleep apnea research, are both uncorrelated to apnea-hypopnea index. In contrast, as in previous analyses, we find evidence that brachycephaly and larger nasal proportions might be associated to obstructive sleep apnea severity. However, this correlational signal is weak and completely disappears when age-related shape variation is statistically controlled for. Our findings suggest that previous work might need to be re-evaluated, and urge researchers to take into account the role of confounders to avoid potentially spurious findings in association studies.
Published in
JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
Year | 2023 |
Month/Hj | June |
Impact Factor (2023) | |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | e13801 - |
Open Access | ja |
Peer reviewed | ja |
Article type | Originalartikel |
Article state | erschienen - EPub |
DOI | 10.1111/jsr.13801 |
PubMed-ID | 36579627 |
Common journal data
Short name: J SLEEP RES
ISSN: 0962-1105
eISSN: 1365-2869
Country: ENGLAND
Language: English
Categories:
Impact factor trend
ISSN: 0962-1105
eISSN: 1365-2869
Country: ENGLAND
Language: English
Categories:
- NEUROSCIENCES
- CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
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2008 | 3.255 |
2009 | 3.5 |
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2011 | 3.157 |
2012 | 3.043 |
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2016 | 3.259 |
2017 | 3.433 |
2018 | 3.432 |
2019 | 3.623 |
2020 | 3.981 |
2021 | 5.296 |