Asthma Control and Its Relationship with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in Older Adults

Table 8

Multivariate associations of persistent daytime and nighttime asthma symptoms with OSA (clinically-diagnosed and untreated) with adjustment for age, gender, race (African-American versus. all others), rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, nasal polyps, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and psychiatric disease, in the older and younger asthma subjects.

	Older (𝑛=154)		Younger (𝑛=659)
	Odds ratio [95% confidence interval]	P value	Odds ratio [95% confidence interval]	P value
Persistent daytime symptoms	2.00 [0.71–5.65]	0.19	2.66 [1.32–5.35]	0.006
Persistent nighttime symptoms	4.56 [1.55–13.43]	0.006	1.35 [0.70–2.63]	0.37