Table 1.

Patient characteristics prior to treatment (±standard error of the mean; n=39)

Patients characteristics prior to treatment
Age (years)	47.6±1.6
Gender (%)
Male	85
Female	15
Ethnicity (%)
Caucasian	72
African-American	10
Hispanic	5
Asian	8
Other	5
Education (%)
Graduate school	10
College graduate	39
Partial college	28
High school graduate	20
Partial high school	3
BMI (kg/m2)	31.1±0.9
AHI	63.9±4.9
%O2<90	7±2.1
IL-6 (pg/ml)	3.6±0.4
TNF-α (pg/ml)	1.7 ±0.2
sTNF-R1 (pg/ml)	908.3 ±34.2
GDS	0.3 ±0.06

BMI Body mass index, AHI apnea-hypopnea index, %O₂<90 oxygen saturation below 90%