This study aimed to evaluate the cephalometric characteristics in non-snoring individuals and snoring subjects, and investigate differences in the pharyngeal airway space between the 2 groups.
This case-control study included 70 patients aged over 18 years, selected from a radiology center. The patients were divided into 2 groups: case (35 patients with a history of habitual snoring); and control (35 healthy patients). The Berlin sleep questionnaire was administered to the parents of the patients. The nasopharyngeal airway was measured according to the analysis of Linder-Aronson (1970), and 4 indices were measured and analyzed in each of the lateral cephalometric radiographs.
No statistically significant differences were observed in the pharyngeal measurements between the 2 groups, although all means in the control group were higher than in the experimental group. However, there was a significant relationship between gender and the Ba-S-PNS and PNS-AD2 indices.
Although the patients with nocturnal snoring had smaller airway dimensions, their pharyngeal measurements were not significantly different from the control group.
目的:本研究旨在评估非打鼾者和打鼾者的头颅测量特征,并研究两组之间咽气间隙的差异。
方法:本病例对照研究包括70名年龄超过18岁的患者,选自放射中心.将患者分为两组:病例组(35例有习惯性打鼾史的患者);和对照组(35例健康患者)。对患者的父母进行了柏林睡眠问卷。根据Linder-Aronson(1970)的分析测量鼻咽气道,在每个侧位头颅X线片中测量和分析了4个指标。
结果:两组之间的咽部测量结果无统计学差异,尽管对照组的所有平均值均高于实验组。然而,性别与Ba-S-PNS和PNS-AD2指数之间存在显著关系。
结论:尽管夜间打鼾患者的气道尺寸较小,他们的咽部测量值与对照组无显著差异.