Respiratory Medicine

Sex differences in the association between clinically diagnosed sleep apnea & all-cause mortality: Findings from a national veterans database

By Mehrnaz Azarian, Amin Ramezani, Javad Razjouyan, Amir Sharafkhaneh

Graphical abstract from Respiratory Medicine — Graphical abstract. Azarian et al.

Cohort study of 146,145 peoplePopulations

The paper

Mehrnaz Azarian, Amin Ramezani, Javad Razjouyan, Amir Sharafkhaneh

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Respiratory Medicine, 17 Aug 2026

doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2026.109109 PubMed 42607739

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