Gender-Specific Impacts of Apnea, Age, and BMI on Parasympathetic Nerve Dysfunction during Sleep in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

• Kazuhiro Yamaguchi ,

  * E-mail: yamaguc@sirius.ocn.ne.jp

  Affiliation Comprehensive Medical Center of Sleep Disorders, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuji Inoue,

  Affiliation Comprehensive Medical Center of Sleep Disorders, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Noboru Ohki,

  Affiliation NoruPro Light Systems Incorporation, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Natsumi Satoya,

  Affiliation Comprehensive Medical Center of Sleep Disorders, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Fukumi Inoue,

  Affiliation Comprehensive Medical Center of Sleep Disorders, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshiko Maeda,

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Haruki Sekiguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mayumi Suzuki,

  Affiliation Comprehensive Medical Center of Sleep Disorders, Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takao Tsuji,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center, Inashiki, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kazutetsu Aoshiba,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center, Inashiki, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Atsushi Nagai

  Affiliation The First Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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