Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0277
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2167-0277
+44 1478 350008
Liang-Wen Hang
China Medical University Hospital,
No. 2, Yuh-Der Road, Taichung-404
People's Republic of China
Research Article
Association of Childhood Asthma and Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Retrospective Cohort Study from a Nationwide Population-based Database
Author(s): Chien-Heng Lin, Wei-Ching Lin, Cheng-Li Lin and Liang-Wen Hang
Chien-Heng Lin, Wei-Ching Lin, Cheng-Li Lin and Liang-Wen Hang
Background and objective: Asthma is a risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adult patients. However, the relationship between pediatric OSA and childhood asthma remains unclear. Here, we conducted a large-scale population-based cohort study for evaluating our hypothesis that childhood asthma is a risk factor for pediatric OSA.
Methods: From 2000 to 2007, children with and without asthma who were frequency matched by age, sex, urbanization level, comorbidities, and baseline year were enrolled from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). We compared pediatric OSA risk between asthma and non-asthma cohorts by using multivariable Cox regression analysis.
Results: We observed a significant relationship between asthma and OSA. In total, we included 305094 children with asthma and 305094.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-0277.1000266