Table 5: Associations between patient characteristics and number of sleep disordered breathing symptoms

Number of SDB symptoms
Variable 0 (N=42) 1 (N=29) 2 (N=14) 3 (N=9) P-value
Age 68 (59–74) 70 (61–73) 72 (52–79) 67 (60–78) 0.67
Gender 0.013
Male 8 (19%) 15 (52%) 6 (43%) 5 (56%)
Female 34 (81%) 14 (48%) 8 (57%) 4 (44%)
BMI 27.0 (23.3–30.8) 29.2 (26.1–33.4) 31.3 (27.0–33.6) 32.9 (28.0–45.9) 0.010
Echo RVSP 68 (57–84) 74 (59–82) 69 (46–77) 74 (72–79) 0.71
Sytemic Hypertension 22 (52%) 19 (65%) 8 (57%) 6 (67%) 0.73
- P-values result from Kendall’s correlation coefficient tau or a Cochran-Armitage trend test.