To test the performance of existing screening questionnaires/scales for clinically relevant OSA in patients with AF referred for diagnostic polysomnography. This prospective study compared the performance of seven screening tools (Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Berlin Questionnaire, Sleep Apnea Clinical Score, No...
The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) is equal to the average number of episodes of apnea and hypopnea per hour of sleepwithout the use of a positive airway pressure device. Sleep time can only be measured in a Type I (facility-based polysomnogram) or Type II sleep study. Thus the AHI is r...
Accumulating evidence shows that obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there are no published prospective studies on the relationship between OSA and the progression of arterial stiffness.
With epworth sleepiness scale, the sleep doctor will discover if you have signs of sleep apnea, and he will decide whether you need a sleep study. In this page you will learn how to test your daytime sleepiness with the epworth scale....
Objective To compare the value of Epworth Sleepiness Scale(ESS)vs.STOP-Bang Questionnaire(SBQ)in screening obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome(OSAHS).Methods A total of 148 cases of suspected OSAHS were included in this study.ESS and SBQ were filled before polysomnography(PSG)monitoring.Accordin...
Objective To evaluate the value of Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) in evaluating the severity of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).Methods A total of 340 cases with suspected OSAHS were enrolled.The ESS scores and polysomnography(PSG) monitoring data were analyzed.According to the PSG...
Skolnik and Attarian1 with great interest given my recent role on the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Board of Directors and serving as board liaison to the Scoring Manual Committee and the Hypopnea Scoring Rule Task Force, which were vital to the update of The AASM Manual for ...
We addressed a question if there is a relationship between severity of newly diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and markers of cardiovascular alterations in middle-aged untreated hypertensive patients. In 121 consecutive patients with never-treated essential hypertension (mean age 35.9±10.1 years;...
In recent years, there has been a significant expansion in the development and use of multi-modal sensors and technologies to monitor physical activity, sleep and circadian rhythms. These developments make accurate sleep monitoring at scale a possibility
used trend fluctuation analysis (DFA) to extract the scale index of EEG signals as features, and used support vector machine (SVM) to identify apnea patients, which led to an average accuracy of 95.1%23. These studies are able to distinguish sleep apnea patients from healthy subjects, but ...