Discriminating between positional and non-positional obstructive sleep apnea using some clinical characteristics.

CONCLUSIONS: Half of patients referred for the sleep study had POSA. Age, BMI, DBP, Mallampati, and Berlin scores, put together, were shown to act as good clinical characteristics to discriminate between POSA and non-POSA patients.
PMID: 28425082 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Sleep and Breathing - April 19, 2017 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Oulhaj A, Al Dhaheri S, Su BB, Al-Houqani M Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research