Table 2.
Comparison of age, BMI and AHI in in the selected studies.
| Authors | Number of patients | Non-obese patients(BMI <30) | Obese patients (BMI ≥ 30) | ||||||
| n° | Age (year) | BMI | AHI | n° | Age (year) | BMI | AHI | ||
| Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | ||||||||
| 1 Pae et al., 1999 | 17 | 9 | 54.44 ± 10.47 | 24.69 ± 1.86 | 48.45 ± 8.48 | 8 | 40.63 ± 12.61 | 39.34 ± 5.55 | 84.84 ± 31.44 |
| 2 Paoli et al., 2000 | 85 | 39 | 56 ± 11 | 26 ± 2 | 46 ± 23 | 46 | 54 ± 10 | 35 ± 5 | 50 ± 23 |
| 3 Tangugsorn et al., 2000 | 100 | 43 | 48.3 ± 11.8 | 26.5 ± 2.7 | 32.2 ± 17.7 | 57 | 48.5 ± 11.7 | 34.3 ± 3.6 | 48.4 ± 28.8 |
| 4 Sforza et al., 2000 | 57 | 27 | 52.5 ± 9.8 | - | 62.1 ± 22.7 | 30 | 51.5 ± 8.3 | - | 82.2 ± 35.9 |
| 5 Iked et al., 2001 | 108 | 40 | 55 ± 11 | 24 ± 1.5 | 42 ± 24 | 68 | 54 ± 10 | 34.5 ± 4.7 | 46.6 ± 23.3 |
| One-way ANOVA | F | 3.05 | 10.96 | 8.41 | F | 5.47 | 18.90 | 12.73 | |
| P | 0.019 | 0.000 | 0.000 | P | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
| SNK Post test | 2 vs 3 | 3 vs 5 | 4 vs 3 | SNK Post test | 2 vs 1 | 1 vs 3 | 1 vs 5 | ||
| 5 vs 3 | 2 vs 5 | 4 vs 5 | 2 vs 3 | 1 vs 5 | 1 vs 3 | ||||
| 4 vs 2 | 5 vs 1 | 1 vs 2 | 1 vs 2 | ||||||
| 2 vs 3 | 5 vs 3 | 4 vs 5 | |||||||
| 5 vs 3 | 4 vs 1 | 4 vs 3 | |||||||
| 4 vs 2 | |||||||||