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Therefore, 93 patients (mean age 57.5 \u00b1 13.0 years, mean body mass index 32.2 \u00b1 5.80 kg\/m2, 75 males, 18 females) diagnosed with OSA who subsequently started PAP therapy were randomly selected from the databank of a sleep laboratory of a tertiary university medical center. Patients were subdivided based on nasal anatomy (septal deviation, turbinate hyperplasia, their combination, or none of the above), pharyngeal anatomy (webbing, tonsillar hyperplasia, their combination, or none of the above), and (as a separate group) tongue base anatomy (no tongue base hyperplasia or tongue base hyperplasia). Then, polysomnographic data (e.g., arousal index, ARI; respiratory disturbance index, RDI; apnea index, AI; hypopnea index, HI; and oxygen desaturation index, ODI) of diagnostic polysomnography (PSG) and PAP therapy control PSG were collected, grouped, and evaluated. Septal deviation, turbinate hyperplasia, or their combination did not significantly affect the assessed PSG parameters or the response to PAP therapy compared with patients without nasal obstruction (p &gt; 0.05 for all parameters). Accordingly, most PSG parameters and the response to PAP therapy were not significantly affected by webbing, tonsil hyperplasia, or their combination compared with patients without pharyngeal obstruction (p &gt; 0.05 for RDI, AI, HI, and ODI, respectively). However, in the pharyngeal anatomy group, ARI was significantly higher in patients with tonsil hyperplasia (p = 0.018). Further, patients with tongue base hyperplasia showed a significantly higher HI in the diagnostic PSG (p = 0.025) compared with patients with normal tongue base anatomy, but tongue base anatomy did not significantly affect the response to PAP therapy (p &gt; 0.05 for all parameters). 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