More men than women have sleep apnea
Middle-aged men are more likely to develop sleep apnea than women. Charles Dickens identified the most common sleep apnea patient back in 1837 when he wrote The Pickwick Papers: The main character was “middle-aged and overweight and snored like a banshee and had excessive daytime sleepiness,” says Mark Eric Dyken, MD.
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