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Purpose: This study was performed to compare characteristics to the risk levels of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in menaged 51 years and older. Methods: This study involved secondary data analysis utilizing data from the Korea NationalHealth and Nutrition Examination Survey. Three thousand eight hundred forty-six men aged 51 years or older participatedin the study. Data were analyzed via descriptive statistics, x2 test, and logistic regression using SPSS/WIN 27.0 software. Results: Study participants were divided into low (26.2%), intermediate (58.4%), and high (15.4%) OSA risk groups. Factors that correlated with OSA risk level included age, high-risk drinking, subjective health status, perceived stress,central obesity, and dyslipidemia. Subjects diagnosed with dyslipidemia were 2.25 fold elevated risk of being in theintermediate-risk group and at 4.17 fold elevated risk of being in the high-risk group of OSA (p＜.001). In the case of centralobesity, the respective likelihoods of being in the intermediate and high-risk groups of OSA increased by 2.10 and 6.46fold (p＜.001). Conclusion: Multiple strategies are required to manage OSA risk factors depending on risk level and todevelop nursing intervention approaches to prevent individuals from progressing into the high-risk group for OSA.

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