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Socioeconomic factors do not predict sleep apnea in a population sample from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
- Purpose Socioeconomic factors are known to modulate health. Concerning sleep apnea, influences of income, education, work, and living in a partnership are established. However, results differ between national and ethnic groups. Results also differ between various clinical studies and population-based approaches. The goal of our study was to determine if such factors can be verified in the population of Pomerania, Germany. Methods A subgroup from the participants of the population-based Study of Health in Pomerania volunteered for an overnight polysomnography. Their data were subjected to an ordinal regressions analysis with age, sex, body mass index (BMI), income, education, work, and life partner as predictors for the apnea–hypopnea index. Results Among the subgroup (N = 1209) from the population-based study (N = 4420), significant effects were found for age, sex, and BMI. There were no significant effects for any of the socioeconomic factors. Conclusion Significant effects for well-established factors as age, sex, and BMI show that our study design has sufficient power to verify meaningful associations with sleep apnea. The lack of significant effects for the socioeconomic factors suggests their clinical irrelevance in the tested population.
Author: | Markus Krüger, Anne Obst, Olaf Bernhardt, Ralf EwertORCiD, Thomas Penzel, Beate Stubbe, Ingo Fietze, Tatyana Ivanovska, Reiner Biffar, Amro Daboul |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-107063 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-022-02614-1 |
ISSN: | 1522-1709 |
Parent Title (English): | Sleep and Breathing |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/04/29 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/05/01 |
Release Date: | 2024/02/22 |
Tag: | AHI; Apnea–hypopnea index; OSAS; Ordinal regression; Sleep apnea; Socioeconomic status; Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 2 |
First Page: | 459 |
Last Page: | 467 |
Faculties: | Universitätsmedizin / Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde |
Collections: | weitere DFG-förderfähige Artikel |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International |