. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 12.

Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2019 Dec 19;274:103362. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2019.103362

Table 1.

Anthropometric and sleep data of the study subjects. AHI and SO2 data were obtained from conventional sleep studies performed before the current study.

	OSA (n = 8)	healthy
	OSA (n = 8)	older (n = 7)	young (n = 5)
AHI	58.4 ± 9.4	7.6 ± 2.0^***	3.8 ± 1.2^***
BMI	33.5 ± 4.8	27.2 ± 3.5^*	23.6 ± 1.5^**
age	53.6 ± 8.7	52.6 ± 10.0	21.2 ± 0.4^***
lowest SO2	75.4 ± 8.5	90.4 ± 2.1^***	93.8 ± 1.1^**
%time SO2 < 90 %	18.9 ± 19.1	0.2 ± 0.5^**	0^*
Pcrit	1.98 ± 1.4	−6.2 ± 3.1^***	−5.7 ± 0.9^***

AHI – apnea/hypopnea index. SO2 – oxygen saturation.

p < 0.05;

^{** -}

p < 0.01;

^{*** -}

p < 0.001 for comparison with OSA.