Obstructive sleep apnea in professional rugby league athletes: An exploratory study

Objectives To explore the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) within a professional rugby league team and determine associations of OSA with ethnicity, positional group, and physical characteristics. Design Observational prospective cohort study. Methods Twenty-two professional rugby league athletes underwent one night of home-based polysomnography with apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), rapid eye movement (REM)AHI, non-REMAHI and supineAHI...