There's a lot of evidence that CPAP improves overall health and quality of life in both sexes with sleep apnea, also, because sleep apnea is less recognized in women, our hope is that this will provide further evidence that patients should be evaluated and treated for sleep apnea.

Sebastian Jara

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We were surprised to see that we had a strong effect in the women in our study but minimal to no effect in the men in our study, we don't have a great answer for it at this point.

One of the reasons why our findings may have been different from past studies, at least in men, is that a lot of past studies looked at men with sleep apnea who also had a form of sexual dysfunction at baseline. So improvements were noted, but they were noted in a patient population that already had more sexual dysfunction.