Follow-up of primary snoring in children.
We reevaluated 13 children with primary snoring 3 years after their original polysomnograms were performed and compared them with healthy control subjects. As a group, the patients' snoring and polysomnographic findings did not change. There was no difference in any sleep-disordered breathing of the patients and control subjects. Only the youngest individual in the study developed frank obstructive sleep apnea. Children with primary snoring are not likely to develop polysomnography-confirmed obstructive sleep apnea, and it is safe to defer treatment.
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School of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017286:Polysomnography; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000209:etiology; D012913:Snoring / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*