Increased Risk of Benign Prostate Hyperplasia in Sleep Apnea Patients: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

• Ping-Song Chou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Song Chou, Wei-Chiao Chang

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Wei-Chiao Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Song Chou, Wei-Chiao Chang

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Wei-Po Chou,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Mu-En Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chiou-Lian Lai,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of and Master’s Program in Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Kuan Liu,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of and Master’s Program in Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Yan-Chiou Ku,

  Affiliation Nursing Department, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Shih-Jen Tsai,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yii-Her Chou ,

  * E-mail: wpchang@mail.ypu.edu.tw (W. Chang); yihech@gap.kmu.edu.tw (YHC)

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Urology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Wei-Pin Chang

  * E-mail: wpchang@mail.ypu.edu.tw (W. Chang); yihech@gap.kmu.edu.tw (YHC)

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Management, Yuanpei University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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