Article
Cohort profile: the Western Australian Sleep Health Study.
Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung - 1 Mar 2012
Mukherjee Sutapa, Hillman David, Lee Jessica, Fedson Annette, Simpson Laila, Ward Kim, Love Gregory, Edwards Cass, Szegner Bernadett, Palmer Lyle John
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic and genetic studies of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are limited by a lack of large-scale, well-characterized OSA cohorts. These studies require large sample size to provide adequate power to detect differences between groups. This study describes the development of such a cohort (The Western Australian Sleep Health Study) in OSA patients of Caucasian-European origin attending the only...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Cohort Studies
- Comorbidity
- Data Collection
- Databases, Factual
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Association Studies