Prevalence of XXXX in coal miners and healthy adults.

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Obstructive sleep @entity27 is associated with symptoms including habitual snoring, witness @entity386 and excessive @entity25 . @entity27 is related to some occupations which are needed attention for work accident. We aimed to determine the prevalence of snoring, witnessed @entity386 and excessive @entity25 in coal workers and healthy adults in Zonguldak city center, and also evaluate the differences between these groups. This study consisted of 423 underground coal workers and 355 individuals living in centre of Zonguldak. Study and comparison group were chosen by nonstratified randomized sampling method. Data were collected by a questionnaire that included information regarding snoring, witnessed @entity386 and excessive @entity25 . Mean age was 43.3    6.05 years in miners and 44.3    11.8 years in comparison group. In miners, snoring frequency was determined as 42.6%, witnessed @entity386 were 4.0%, and @entity25 were 4.7%. In comparison group, these symptoms were 38.6%, 4.8% and 2.8% respectively. There were no statistical differences between coal workers and comparison group in these symptoms. Also snoring prevalence was higher in smoker miners. We found that major symptoms of @entity27 in coal workers are similar to general population in Zonguldak. Further studies that constucted higher populations and with polysomnography are needed to evaluate these findings.
